TANGIBLE USER INTERFACES IN ORDER TO IMPROVE COLLABORATIVE INTERACTIONS AND DECISION MAKING

Alessandra Scotta, Henk Scholten, Sisi Zlatanova, Erik van Borkulo

Content

> Challenges in Emergency Response

> Collaboration: requirements

> The Geodan TangiTable

> Demo

Challenges in Emergency responce

Regional Operational Team (ROT):

> cooperation task: better cooperate between head of each discipline

> supervision task: take the right decisions reducing time

> coordination task: coordinate actions of field units

Example: August 2005

Integrated Call Centre

Gelderland Midden

FIRE!!

Example: ROT, ADS Gelderland Midden

ROT: Geo-informatie

Presentation: on the map

Emergency response: crisis reaction today

Eem meer, Almere, 24 May 2008

Collaboration: in the past and now

Discussion on a paper map or ... Map projected on the wall

Innovations: presentation of information

Attributes

2D presentation

3D presentation

AR presentation

Source: Zlatanova, UDMS 2004

Source: www.maptable.nl

Innovations: interaction with data

Tangible table: the future of crisis response?

Requirements to systems for collaboration

> intuitive

> easy to use, easy human-system interaction

> no special training required

> supportive in collaborations between members involved

> can be used daily

> possibility to perform tasks in parallel

Tangible table systems

> The output can be be projected on a table

> Information onthe table is ‘touchable’ for the users

> Can be combined with differnet devices (i.e. other screens)

> The information can be presented in different modes depending on the eedof the users

The Geodan TangiTable (2003)

HR projector + sensor

Frame

Output layer

(Extra output devices)

The Geodan TangiTable (2003)

> HR projector

> Web cams (sensors)

> Set of colour paterns

MERL DiamondTouch

> Multi-point: multiple touch from one or more points

> Identification: who touches what

MERL DiamondTouch

> Debris Tolerant: objects on the table do not interfere

Coffee Pen

MERL DiamondTouch

> Multi space: possibilities for integration with other devices

> Recognize gestures (e.g. one or more fingers, hand)

System Architecture

SOAP service

Touch Table Client

.NET 3.0 FrameworkSharpMap, S&R WMS client (,CarbonTools)…

WMS Other web service

Oracle SQL server Postgres ….

•Standards

•Distributed

•Service oeriented

•Open sourse

•Follows the systems architecture of

GDI4DM

This was last year

> 5th of march tests with CCS

> MSc research on usability (very well accepted)

> http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch/DiamondTouch.mov

> Surface (Microsoft)

> http://www.microsoft.com/surface/index.html

GDI4DM: http://www.gdi4dm.nl

> Verkeer en Waterstaat, Adviesgroep Geo-informatie

> Kadaster

> Provincie Gelderland

> Veiligheidsregio Gelderland Midden e.a.

> Multiteam

> Vrije universiteit Amsterdam

> Wageningen universiteit

> Technische universiteit Delft

> Geodan