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Mediated tabletop interaction in the biology lab: exploring the design space of the rabbit

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Juan David Hincapié-Ramos,

Aurélien Tabard,

Jakob E. BardramAuthors Info & Claims

UbiComp '11: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing

Pages 301 - 310

https://doi.org/10.1145/2030112.2030153

Published: 17 September 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Interactive surfaces like diffuse illumination tabletops (DIT) identify and track objects using multiple techniques like shape and color recognition, fiducial markers, electronic components, and RFID tags. However, tracking becomes more complex when dealing with multiple small objects of similar form. We propose to use tangible mediators for integrating such objects to tabletops. This paper reports on our initial explorations of mediated tabletop interaction consisting of a mediator prototype and a design space definition. We built a mediator, the Rabbit, a device that translates thevalue of an RFID tag into a visual 2D code. The Rabbit rests on the interactive surface, holds the object, reads its passive RFID tag, and converts the read value into a 2D code that can be read by the DIT's built-in camera. When handling multiple objects, the Rabbit iterates through the generated 2D codes. Through a series of participatory activities with end users (molecular biologists), we collected initial feedback from participants and defined a design space for mediated tabletop interaction.

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Mediated tabletop interaction in the biology lab: exploring the design space of the rabbit
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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UbiComp '11: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing

September 2011

668 pages

ISBN:9781450306300

DOI:10.1145/2030112

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University of Washington, USA & Microsoft Research Asia, China
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University of California, Irvine, USA
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Open University, UK
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Microsoft Research Asia, China

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Xie LSun JCai QWang CWu JLu SLukowicz PKrüger ABulling ALim YPatel S(2016)Tell me what i seeProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing10.1145/2971648.2971661(916-927)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2016
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