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Sneak a Peek Through the Mist to Technology of the Future
A new tabletop display system could change the way people interact and collaborate.
Credit: Bristol Interaction and Graphics Group, University of Bristol
A tabletop display system developed by researchers at the University of Bristol could change the way people interact and collaborate in the future.
The MisTable combines a conventional interactive table with personal screens, built using fog, between the user and the tabletop surface. The tabletop display enables users to move images around and push through the fog-screens and onto the display.
The researchers say the personal screen is both see-through and reach-through, and enables a range of customization and novel interactions such as presenting two-dimensional personal content on the screen, three-dimensional content above the tabletop, or supplementing and renewing actual objects differently for each user.
"Users can be aware of each other's actions and can easily switch between interacting with the personal screen to the tabletop surface or the interaction section," says Bristol professor Sriram Subramanian. "Users can also move content freely between these interaction spaces."
The researchers will present a research paper on the MisTable at this month's ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Toronto.
From University of Bristol News
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