Context-sensitive and Collaborative application for Distributed User Interfaces on tabletops

Abstract

This paper focuses on collaborative work on interactive tabletops. To optimize the travel time of team members (remote workplace, telecommuting, and so on), collaborative work is now often remotely done. This brings many user interfaces issues between distributed platforms of each member. In the domain of context-sensitive user interfaces, which aims at an adaptation to the users, the platforms and the environment, context models have been proposed in the literature. We propose, in this paper, a context model for distributed applications centered on collaboration and interactive tabletops. The proposed model is validated by a distributed application, which is developed on two interactive tabletops with tangible interaction; these tabletops are equipped with RFID technology. This application, which has educational purposes, highlights the collaborative aspect and exchanges between remote users. The paper ends with a conclusion and several perspectives.

Cross-Device Taxonomy

“…Education [37,179,365] and health [3,87,217,363] have also been popular application domains, where there has been an emphasis on collaborative and distributed work. Education applications have primarily focused on supporting classroom capture [344], classroom presentation [37,117], educational games [29,71,195], and simulations of classroom activities [163,232,262,345,365]. Kreitmayer et al [179] present one of the few in-the-wild studies, where they observed collaborative activities in the classroom to inform the design of a group finance management activity with a shared tablet and large display.…”

Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-Device Management in Classrooms

“…Moreover, device coniguration is rarely considered. These projects assume that no interaction is required to pair devices together and that devices are already inter-connected [5,29,34,56]. Fine control over documents or other forms of content to share between devices is also something that is often overlooked, although this is a very common task for teachers.…”

Citizen Engagement through Tangible Data Representation

“…It should be noted that the amenability of tangible interfaces for collaborative work has made them promising tools for facilitating collaboration over long distances by augmenting teleconferencing (see for example Bouabid et al, 2014;Gonzalez-Franco et al, 2015), and for strengthening communications in co-Foro de Educación, v. 14, n. 20, enero-junio 2016, pp. 305-325. e-ISSN: 1698-7802 located meetings by means of smart boards and digital Post-It notes (see for example Haller et al, 2010).…”