Mediated Tabletop Interaction In The Biology Lab Exploring the Design Space of the Rabbit Ubicomp 2011 – Beijing, China – September 21, 2011 Juan David Hincapié- Ramos Aurélien Tabard Jakob E. Bardram
Related Work Static Means –Shape and Color –Fiducial and Magnetic Markers Active Means –Dynamic properties –Anoto-based –IR LED diodes –Bluetooth + Blinking Displays RFID-based –Triangulation –Reader Matrixes –Reader on Object –Frame Difference Algebra X Y Tube ID Orientation
The racks are always holding the tubes.
The Rabbit
Augmenting the Rack
Rabbit Schematics Tagged TubesTop ViewBottom View
Coding Approach Reference Bits Byte 1 Byte 2 Byte 3 Byte 4 Checksum Bits Action Bits Unassigned Bits
Mediated Tabletop Interaction RFID Barcodes QR codes iButton LED matrix LCD display USB Bluetooth ZigBee WiFi
Technology Exploration Participatory Design Workshop – 6 participants Focus Group – 12 participants
Technology Exploration Mediator mockup probes 6 participants, 32 pictures Grounded Theory inspired processing 6 categories and 44 tags
Design Space Mediator Design Object – Mediator – Surface Integration Device environment Categories:
Mediator design Capacity Embeddednes s Form Factor
Object+Mediator+Surface Integration Reference Information Source Output Space
Device Integration Surface Coupling Ecology
Conclusion We introduced the concept of Mediated Tabletop Interaction We built a prototype illustrating the concept We described its design space We are looking for new occurrences of it Demo