Abstract:

Interactive tabletops are an increasingly common form factor for group collaborations. Visual data, such as maps, are particularly well-suited for interactive tabletop applications. In this demonstration we present DTMap, a prototype application developed to illustrate the power of combining visual data with a multi-user tabletop environment. It was developed for DaimondTouch (DT) [2], highlighting DT's unique ability to support simultaneous input from multiple users and to identify the owner of each touch. A multi-user interactive tabletop that facilitates direct-touch manipulation of user interface elements provides a shared focus of attention for collaborating users, and has the potential to make a strong contribution to ubiquitous computing environments.