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).

Board game memorizing

Save the status of your game board and continue the game the next day

Tags: gaming recording
Source: Brainstorming 21.06.2021 (FB)


Puzzle helper

Hints are displayed if you struggle with solving the puzzle

Tags: gaming
Source: Brainstorming 21.06.2021 (RW)


Real-life dungeon master top view

Benefit from a real-life dungeon master top view.

Tags: gaming
Source: Brainstorming 21.06.2021 (RW)


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Settlers of Catan Game

Play "Settlers of Catan" with hexagonal tiles

Tags: gaming augmented
Source: Echtler, F. (2018). SurfaceStreams: A Content-Agnostic Streaming Toolkit for Interactive Surfaces. The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Adjunct Proceedings - UIST ’18 Adjunct, 10–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3266037.3266085


Augmented chessboard

Display possible moves next to the chess pieces on the board

Tags: gaming augmented
Source: Ergebnisbericht Pop-Up-Store Tabelle 3, siehe Gesprächsprotokolle (Rohdaten vorhanden)


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Lego

Step-by-step instructions for Lego models

Tags: gaming augmented
Source: Funk, M., Kosch, T., & Schmidt, A. (2016). Interactive worker assistance: Comparing the effects of in-situ projection, head-mounted displays, tablet, and paper instructions. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing - UbiComp ’16, 934–939. https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971706


Pen and paper games

Support pen and paper game playing

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


Play digital-analogue board games

Play digital-analogue board games on the table

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


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Play Memory

Play Memory together with others

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


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Draw by numbers

Display an application in order to draw by numbers on the table

Tags: gaming drawing
Source: PopUp-Science-Ausstellung „VIGITIA meets DEGGINGER 2.0“, Prototype 2, 2021 (raw data available)


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Air Hockey

Play Air Hockey on the table together with others

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


Chess recording

Record the chessboard during a game and in order to analyze your moves afterwards

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


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Educational games

Support learning experiences with projected educational games and information for students, e.g. when learning a language

Tags: gaming information teaching learning
Source: PopUp-Science-Ausstellung „VIGITIA meets DEGGINGER“ 2020 (Rohdaten vorhanden)


Games night

Play board games with friends and family who are at other locations by mirroring the board and game pieces on the tables

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


Augmented Board Games

Track scores and support new players, display possible moves

Tags: gaming augmented
Source: VIGITIA scenario (see https://vigitia.de/scenario)


Clean the table Game

A serious game for children to enhance tidiness.

Tags: gaming children
Source: VIGITIA scenario (see https://vigitia.de/scenario)


Set the table

Project where plates and cutlery should be placed

Tags: information gaming children
Source: VIGITIA scenario (see https://vigitia.de/scenario)


Puzzle Game

Do a projected jigsaw puzzle or solve a puzzle that is created from your favorite picture. You can also choose from different levels of difficulty.

Tags: gaming
Source: random idea (UR), Brainstorming 21.06.2021 (ML)