SkyHunter: a multi-surface environment for supporting oil and gas exploration

Seyed, T., Costa Sousa, M., Maurer, F., and Tang, A. (2013). SkyHunter: a multi-surface environment for supporting oil and gas exploration. In ITS '13: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces, 15--22.

Acceptance: 29% - 35/121.

Abstract

The process of oil and gas exploration and its result, the decision to drill for oil in a specific location, relies on a number of distinct but related domains. These domains require effective collaboration to come to a decision that is both cost effective and maintains the integrity of the environment. As we show in this paper, many of the existing technologies and practices that support the oil and gas exploration process overlook fundamental user issues such as collaboration, interaction and visualization. The work presented in this paper is based upon a design process that involved expert users from an oil and gas exploration firm in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. We briefly present knowledge of the domain and how it informed the design of SkyHunter, a prototype multi-surface environment to support oil and gas exploration. This paper highlights our current prototype and we conclude with a reflection on multi-surface interactions and environments in this domain.

Materials

PDF File (http://hcitang.org/papers/2013-its2013-skyhunter.pdf)
DOI (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2512349.2512798)

Keywords

Oil and gas; multi-surface environments; tabletops; gestures; cross-device interaction; mobile devices

BibTeX

@inproceedings{seyed2013skyhunter,
  year = {2013},
  type = {conference},
  title = {SkyHunter: a multi-surface environment for supporting oil and gas exploration},
  publisher = {ACM},
  pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2013-its2013-skyhunter.pdf},
  pages = {15--22},
  location = {St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom},
  keywords = {Oil and gas; multi-surface environments; tabletops; gestures; cross-device
interaction; mobile devices},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-2271-3},
  doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2512349.2512798},
  date-modified = {2014-01-11 04:35:50 +0000},
  booktitle = {ITS '13: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international conference on Interactive
tabletops and surfaces},
  author = {Seyed, Teddy and Costa Sousa, Mario and Maurer, Frank and Tang, Anthony},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  acceptance = {29% - 35/121},
  abstract = {The process of oil and gas exploration and its result, the decision
to drill for oil in a specific location, relies on a number of distinct but
related domains. These domains require effective collaboration to come to a
decision that is both cost effective and maintains the integrity of the environment.
As we show in this paper, many of the existing technologies and practices that
support the oil and gas exploration process overlook fundamental user issues
such as collaboration, interaction and visualization. The work presented in
this paper is based upon a design process that involved expert users from an
oil and gas exploration firm in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. We briefly present
knowledge of the domain and how it informed the design of SkyHunter, a prototype
multi-surface environment to support oil and gas exploration. This paper highlights
our current prototype and we conclude with a reflection on multi-surface interactions
and environments in this domain.},
}