mediated tabletop interaction in the biology lab, exploring the design space of the rabbit
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Presentation for Ubicomp 2011Juan-David Hincapié Ramos, Aurélien Tabard and Jakob Bardram.pIT lab, IT University of CopenhagenTRANSCRIPT
Mediated Tabletop Interaction
In The Biology LabExploring 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 Tubes Top View Bottom View
Coding Approach
Reference Bits
Byte 1
Byte 2
Byte 3
Byte 4
Checksum Bits
Action Bits
Unassigned Bits
Mediated Tabletop Interaction
RFIDBarcodes
QR codes
iButton
LED matrixLCD display
USBBluetooth
ZigBeeWiFi
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 DesignObject – Mediator – Surface IntegrationDevice environment
Categories:
Mediator design
Capacity
Embeddedness
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
conceptWe described its design space
We are looking for new occurrences of it
Demo