Use cases and application scenarios for interactive tables

Over the course of the last few years, as part of the VIGITIA project, we have collected a wide range of ideas for possible use cases and application scenarios for interactive tabletops.

Some of the ideas listed below were already part of the VIGITIA scenario created in the initial phase of the project. The majority of the ideas presented below, however, have been developed as part of a participatory design process accompanying the technological development of our prototypes from 2020 to 2022. Thus, they result from our engagement with a broader public in the course of pop-up science exhibitions, an idea workshop with creative professionals, as well as an online survey on table usage. In addition, we added ideas that came up in internal brainstorming sessions in the PDA research group.

We already started categorizing the ideas collected - Click on one of the tags if you´re interested in a specific type of use case or application scenario. Or just browse through the list to get an overview.

If you have any questions about our collection of ideas or the participative design process they result from, feel free to contact Sarah Thanner (sarah.thanner@ur.de).

Augmented Dining

Show ingredients and nutritional value next to the dish

Tags: food augmented information health
Source: Echtler, F., & Wimmer, R. (2014). The Interactive Dining Table, or Pass the Weather Widget, Please. Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces - ITS ’14, 419–422. https://doi.org/10.1145/2669485.2669525


Calorie counting

Track and display your calorie intake

Tags: managing health food
Source: Ergebnisbericht Pop-Up-Store Tabelle 2, siehe Gesprächsprotokolle (Rohdaten vorhanden)


Menu card

Restaurant guests can choose a dish on the projected menu card

Tags: food restaurant
Source: Ergebnisbericht Pop-Up-Store Tabelle 2, siehe Gesprächsprotokolle (Rohdaten vorhanden)


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Recognize supermarket products

Recognize products at the cash register or scale of a supermarket and display additional information regarding prices and names of the items

Tags: food information
Source: PopUp-Science-Ausstellung „VIGITIA meets DEGGINGER 2.0“, Prototype 1, 2021 (raw data available)


Display nutritional information

Display nutrition and calorie information of food stuffs (e.g. at home or in the supermarket) and track your calorie intake

Tags: food health information
Source: PopUp-Science-Ausstellung „VIGITIA meets DEGGINGER“ 2020 (Rohdaten vorhanden)


Medical dietetics

Display nutritional information of food stuffs, e.g. for people with diabetes or food intolerances

Tags: food health
Source: PopUp-Science-Ausstellung „VIGITIA meets DEGGINGER“ 2020 (Rohdaten vorhanden)


Menu

Display menu on the dining table in a restaurant

Tags: food information restaurant
Source: PopUp-Science-Ausstellung „VIGITIA meets DEGGINGER“ 2020 (Rohdaten vorhanden)