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)


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Drink reminder

Display regular reminders to drink water and record if you drink enough.

Tags: health notification
Source: Onlineumfrage „Tischnutzung im Alltag“ 2020, Ergebnisbericht Tabelle 14 (Rohdaten Zeile 155)


Send medical reports

Send digital copies of analogue medical reports to someone via the table

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


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Diagnostic support

Support doctors in diagnostics (e.g. recognition of skin diseases)

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


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Manage lab results

Support doctors when evaluating and comparing lab results by displaying the results and offering automatic comparison.

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


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Project X-rays

Project X-rays onto the table for doctors

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


Display files

Recognize and display customer or patient files on the table and interact with them, e.g. in administration or when doing patient rounds

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


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)


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Medication management

Project helpful information to support daily medication intake, e.g. for elderly people

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


Coffee consumption

Record your coffee consumption

Tags: augmented health
Source: random idea (UR)