Observations of a Shared Tabletop User Study

Abstract

We present observational user study findings of UbiTable, a multi-user interactive tabletop that provides walk-up wireless connections for multiple personal devices. UbiTable offers shared interactions that allow writing, annotating, drawing, copying, and the transferring of content among the tabletop and associated user devices. Our findings uncovered general design considerations and tradeoffs in the area of multi-user audio feedback, document ownership, and cross-device document transfer in multi-device multi-user co-located computational environment.