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).

Color information

Display information on colors for color blind people

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


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Text magnifier

Support people with poor eyesight by providing a digital tool to enlarge text

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


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Instructions for impaired

Display instructions in order to support mentally impaired people

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


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Communication tool for deaf people

Display written language on the table to improve communication between deaf people and people who do not speak sign languages

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


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Memory collection

Collect and share memorabilia as projected notes or images on the table, e.g. for people with dementia

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


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Dyslexia Simulator

Visualize on a book/document on the table how it feels to have dyslexia

Tags: learning teaching accessibility
Source: Yong, Z. F., Ng, A. L., & Nakayama, Y. (2019, October). The Dyslexperience: Use of Projection Mapping to Simulate Dyslexia. In 2019 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 493-495).