CoSpace: Shared surfaces and collaborative interactions

This project explores how novel interactive surfaces can be designed and used by co-located groups to enhance collaboration and interaction with digital information and physical artifacts. Domains we are looking at are collaborative learning, working, and decision-making. The project has been using the state-of-the-art interactive tabletop, DiamondSpin, donated by MERL. It is also investigating how other surfaces can be integrated, including large mixed paper-electronic wall displays, tangibles and ambient displays. A central concern is how best to support the diversity of interactions that take place in these new forms of co-spaces. This involves investigating both (i) the processes of management and collaboration in person-technology interactions and (ii) processes of visualizing, manipulating, comparing and integrating information. A number of applications have been developed to support novel forms of collaborative learning, physical layout design and group decision-making. The project follows on from the research Yvonne Rogers was carrying out on the eSpace project and the Dynamo project in the UK.

A video showing some of the research results can be downloaded here

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