VisTACO: visualizing tabletop collaboration

Tang, A., Pahud, M., Carpendale, S., and Buxton, B. (2010). VisTACO: visualizing tabletop collaboration. In ITS '10: ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, 29--38.

Abstract

As we design tabletop technologies, it is important to also understand how they are being used. Many prior researchers have developed visualizations of interaction data from their studies to illustrate ideas and concepts. In this work, we develop an interactional model of tabletop collaboration, which informs the design of VisTACO, an interactive visualization tool for tabletop collaboration. Using VisTACO, we can explore the interactions of collaborators with the tabletop to identify patterns or unusual spatial behaviours, supporting the analysis process. VisTACO helps bridge the gap between observing the use of a tabletop system, and understanding users' interactions with the system.

Materials

PDF File (http://hcitang.org/papers/2010-its2010-vistaco.pdf)
DOI (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1936652.1936659)

Keywords

tabletop, collaboration, information visualization

BibTeX

@inproceedings{tang2010vistaco,
  year = {2010},
  type = {conference},
  title = {VisTACO: visualizing tabletop collaboration},
  publisher = {ACM},
  pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2010-its2010-vistaco.pdf},
  pages = {29--38},
  location = {Saarbrücken, Germany},
  keywords = {tabletop, collaboration, information visualization},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-0399-6},
  doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1936652.1936659},
  date-modified = {2014-01-17 04:42:20 +0000},
  booktitle = {ITS '10: ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and
Surfaces},
  author = {Tang, Anthony and Pahud, Michel and Carpendale, Sheelagh and Buxton,
Bill},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  abstract = {As we design tabletop technologies, it is important to also understand
how they are being used. Many prior researchers have developed visualizations
of interaction data from their studies to illustrate ideas and concepts. In
this work, we develop an interactional model of tabletop collaboration, which
informs the design of VisTACO, an interactive visualization tool for tabletop
collaboration. Using VisTACO, we can explore the interactions of collaborators
with the tabletop to identify patterns or unusual spatial behaviours, supporting
the analysis process. VisTACO helps bridge the gap between observing the use
of a tabletop system, and understanding users' interactions with the system.},
}