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)


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)


Table surface screenshot

Make photos of the table surface

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


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Table time lapse

Make time lapse recordings of what happened on the table

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


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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Error tracking

Use video recording of the surface to identify errors in your workflow

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


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Stop Motion Tool

Place your scene on the table -> table takes picture -> move scene forward by one frame -> table takes picture -> ... -> Table creates animation from single frames and can play it as a video

Tags: recording pictures create
Source: Raphael Wimmer / trickmix.tv


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Table as scanner

Cameras could automatically scan everything that is placed on the table (e.g. documents, pictures)

Tags: digitization recording
Source: VIGITIA scenario (see https://vigitia.de/scenario)


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History of Table

show what happend on this table in the past

Tags: recording
Source: random idea (UR)