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).

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Team lineup planning

Plan the lineup of your team

Tags: meeting work
Source: Onlineumfrage „Tischnutzung im Alltag“ 2020, Ergebnisbericht Tabelle 14 (Rohdaten Zeile 264)


Collaborative Whiteboard

Use the surface as a collaborative whiteboard to take notes during a meeting or use it as an asynchronous whiteboard and leave notes on the table that can later be read by your colleagues

Tags: collaboration work meeting
Source: Onlineumfrage „Tischnutzung im Alltag“ 2020, Ergebnisbericht Tabelle 14 (Rohdaten Zeile 60)


Meeting recordings

Record what happens on the table during meetings

Tags: recording work meeting
Source: PopUp-Science-Ausstellung „VIGITIA meets DEGGINGER 2.0“, Prototype 3, 2021 (raw data available)


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Meetings and conferences

Enable collaboration during meetings and conferences by projecting documents

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


Mirror documents

Mirror documents on the tables of people in different locations during online conferences

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


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Group Mirror application: Moderate discussions

Moderate rounds of discussions by tracking talking times of each participant

Tags: meeting work
Source: VIGITIA scenario (see https://vigitia.de/scenario)