Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Rickys talk

FORM FACTOR

SUGGESTED Benefits of tabletops

  • Enhanced collaboration - face to face vs side,by side
  • More equitable participation
  • social 'flattening'
  • - subtle social benefits.
  • supports eye contacts, casual interaction with device,
  • Natural interaction
  • Mimics the physics of real world - so simpler to use
  • Can support hightly 'fluid' interaction
  • Bimanual interaction - higher interaction bandwidth

Territoriality
- people use orientation and proximity to identify personal zones
- centre space is public/shared
Moving items
- momentum
- magnified control
- [ river along the edge ]
- spinning table
Problems
- bad lag
- what causes lag in a vision system ?
- lag proportional to number of people in system?
- fidelity of recognition
- fingers are quite big ( 1-cm sqaure )
- text orientation

What are tables good for?
Ordering in restaurant

Augmented table tops
- tracking real objects ( background subtraction... )
- arms /hands ...
- IR pens..
- Pen's
- when pressed down..

Is the ecology of devices about designing for multiple screen sizes
- how to prioritise what is important to display
- how to respond to near by devices.


What are my three inspirations/applications
- 1. huge card sorting
- 2. calendar with in-situ expansion of days.
- 3. zooming catalogue of anything.

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