“TransformTable”
Description:
Interactive tabletop is fundamentally a social entity that allows people to gather around it and to engage in various tasks, individually or in a group. Typically, every table is anchored in an environment and has a single shaped surface, which limits its usage to specific goals and needs. In fact, people will sometime replace tables and move them around according to changing tasks. In this manuscript, we introduce the use of robotic digital tabletop that address the fundamental issue on how to customize workspace for various activities such as individual and group work, and mixed-focus collaboration in a work environment.
References:
[1]
K. Takashima, Y. Asari, H. Yokoyama, E. Sharlin, Y. Kitamura, MovemenTable: The Design of Moving Interactive Tabletops, Proceedings of INTERACT, 2015 (To appear).
[2]
K. Takashima, N. Aida, H. Yokoyama, Y. Kitamura, TransformTable: a self-actuated shape-changing digital table, Proceedings of Conferece on Interactive Tabletop and Surface (ITS), pp.179–187, 2013.
[3]
P. Tandler, T. Prante, C. Muller-Tomfelde, N. Streitz, R. Steinmetz, ConnecTables: dynamic coupling of displays for the flexible creation of shared workspaces, Proceedings of the Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), pp. 11–20, 2001.
