The document discusses interactive touch-tables and displays, exploring their advantages in collaborative environments, including enhanced user interaction and support for multi-user tasks. It highlights challenges regarding usability, legacy applications, and the need for interoperability with mobile devices. Additionally, it reviews various research and products related to this technology and its potential applications in work, education, and leisure settings.

1. Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure Lynn Marentette March 26, 2007 Ubiquitous Computing

2. Introduction Work involving tables stems from the research in computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). Need to work off-of the desktop in order to view more information with others at the same time. Collaboration using GIS-type applications Photography, graphics, design Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

3. Questions What are the advantages of interactive displays and tabletops? Takes natural input and gestures Takes advantage of social habits- gathering around a table. Encourages human-to-human interaction Some applications allow for co-location Allows for multi-user interaction Provides large work or play surfaces Decreases cognitive load Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

4. Questions Does a large tabletop provide spatial and perceptual cognitive advantages for users? Under what circumstances does this occur and when does it break down? Further evaluation of cognitive prosthesis Further evaluation of how this device can help represent, visualize, express, and share ideas (From: “Informing the Design of Direct-Touch Tabletops”) Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

5. Questions What are the advantages of interactive displays and tabletops that are interoperable with mobile devices? Support of synchronous remote collaboration and communication Support of synchronous sharing of pictures, video streams, and visualized representation of data Support of mult-user “pervasive” games Support of navigation and way-finding tasks Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

6. Challenges Usability in a variety of settings? Design centers Homes Cafes Showrooms Waiting rooms Lobbies Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

7. Interactive Walls Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure http:// www.visualplanet.biz/products/touchfoil /

8. Visual Planet Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure Touch Foil ThroughWindow Conferencing www.visualplanet.biz

9. Visual Planet Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure www.visualplanet.biz

10. Interactive Tables Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure http://www.touchtable.com/site/TouchTable%20Datasheet%20v1.0.pdf

11. Interactive Games Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

12. Hewlett-Packard Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

13. MERL Diamond Touch Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

14. Onomy Labs Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure http://www.onomy.com/

15. Example: Pervasive Checkers Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

16. Challenges Content orientation Occlusion and reach How do we make the application occlusion-aware? Drag and drop/rotation Handling of concurrent interaction Allowing for bi-manual or multi-touch input Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

17. Challenges Support for legacy applications Mouse and keyboard applications Enhancing precision, hovering on the screen Handling walk-up and walk away events Handling non-speech feedback Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

18. More Challenges How do we establish ubiquitous systems that support interoperability with mobile devices and large-screen displays? What other work, education, and leisure activities can be supported by this sort of system? What are privacy and security issues related to remote access and use of these systems? How do we evaluate? Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

19. Research and Products Jeff Hans: MultiTouch Interaction Research Video (2006) Jeff Hans is a researcher at NYU. i_AM demo video The i_AM application demos give a good picture of what people can do with interactive touch screens for art and music. Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

20. Co-operative Work Computer Systems TouchTable " It has become increasingly important for institutions to merge knowledge sets in order to see the entire scope of a project. TouchTable facilitates this by giving the means to combine and display this data in a collaborative environment." Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

21. Co-operative Work Computer Systems Touch Table Website Multi-user capability, facilitates group work. TouchTables can be networked across remote locations. People working outside in the field using can interact with an indoor TouchTable, using a rugged interactive tablet PC. The video shows how the table works, using the Arc-GIS Smart Service, an extension of Arc Globe, which is GIS software by ESRI. #13 Touch Table Collaboration Demonstration Concept mapping on a touch table (video) Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

22. MERL Mitsubishi Electronic Research Laboratory DiamondTouch Interactive Table MERL (Mitsubishi Electronic Research Laboratory) UbiTable video: http:// www.merl.com/projects/UbiTable/UbiTablewithCopyright.mov Video demonstrations: http:// www.diamondspace.merl.com/video.php Mitsubishi Research - Video demonstration of a multimodal-multiplayer tabletop game, " WarcraftIII " This demo shows how a popular strategy game can be played on a touch screen table. DiamondSpace Publication List Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

23. Philips Research Philips Entertaible: http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =SD9HXRWIHPw The Entertaible is a multi-touch format for playing games with more than one player Philips Entertaible website . Philips Cafe Table: http://www.design.philips.com/assets/Downloadablefile/lime-12959.mov The Cafe Table is another example of how a touch-screen interface can be deployed in a gathering place. Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

24. EyeClick EyeTouch EyeClick is used for advertising and games in public spaces, such as malls. EyeClick EyeTouch Website EyeClick Interactive Media videoclips: http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v = IqVgPZlKpmc http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =8PEKjqomRCg http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v = PHZeNLCZqMs http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =Nae0jA6eeg8 EyeClick Soccer: http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v = BTfvttVHzSo Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

25. Buildings and Public Spaces Asian Society Media Table The media table is located in the lobby of the Asian society and is designed for use by middle age and older people Intelligent Buildings: http:// www.intelligentbuildings.com/Video/ballantyne_final.wmv This Charlotte-based company provides the "fourth utility" services. This includes interactive displays and digital signage for way-finding. Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

26. Tableportation Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure TablePortation design space analysis videoclip: http://www.interaction-ivrea.it/theses/2003-04/tableportation/index.html Also see the TablePortation Project website Panasonic's Interactive Table (scroll down to locate video)

27. Resources Stanford University Interactive Workspaces Lab Tangible Play /Intelligent User Interfaces Interactive Tables: Supporting Casual Collaborative Learning http:// craftwww.epfl.ch/research/interactivetable / Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

28. Resources Jean- Baptiste Haué , Pierre Dillenbourg Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) CRAFT - School of Computer and Communication Sciences CH-1015 Lausanne, Switerzland Bill Buxton: Multi-Touch Systems that I have Known and Loved Website, Microsoft Research, 2007 Pasta and Vinegar Blog: Interactive Tables http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2005/01/10/space-and-place-a-list-fo-interactive-tables / Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure