Interactive Touch-Tables and Displays for Work and Leisure

Lynn Marentette

March 26, 2007

Ubiquitous Computing

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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

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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

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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”)

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

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Challenges

• Usability in a variety of settings?– Design centers– Homes– Cafes– Showrooms– Waiting rooms– Lobbies

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Interactive Walls

http://www.visualplanet.biz/products/touchfoil/

Visual Planet

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Touch Foil

ThroughWindow

Conferencing

www.visualplanet.biz

Visual Planet

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www.visualplanet.biz

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Interactive Tables

http://www.touchtable.com/site/TouchTable%20Datasheet%20v1.0.pdf

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Interactive Games

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Hewlett-Packard

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MERL Diamond Touch

Onomy Labs

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http://www.onomy.com/

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Example: Pervasive Checkers

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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

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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

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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?

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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.

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."

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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)

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MERLMitsubishi Electronic Research Laboratory

• DiamondTouch Interactive TableMERL (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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Tableportation• 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)

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Resources

• Stanford University Interactive Workspaces Lab

• Tangible Play /Intelligent User Interfaces

• Interactive Tables: Supporting Casual Collaborative Learning http://craftwww.epfl.ch/research/interactivetable/

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Resources

• Jean-Baptiste Haué, Pierre DillenbourgEcole 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/