TY - GEN
T1 - Collaboratively creating a thematic repository using interactive table-top technology
AU - Loizides, Fernando
AU - Vasiliou, Christina
AU - Ioannou, Andri
AU - Zaphiris, Panayiotis
PY - 2012/10/25
Y1 - 2012/10/25
N2 - This paper reports on the design and development of a surface computing application in support of collaborative idea creation and thematic categorisation. C.A.R.T (Collaborative Assisted Repository for Tabletops) allows up to 4 users to simultaneously interact with virtual objects, each containing a single concept, to create thematic categories. Each object, which replicates a physical post-it on a multi-touch tabletop, is created by one of the team members either previous to the meeting or during the initial stage. The application then encourages the exchange of debate and conversation by presenting the ideas one at a time for users to discuss and categorise. The resulting idea repository can be used for roadmap creation as well as comparative studies using further participants. The application's main task is similar to that of card sorting and affinity diagramming. We report on the functionality of the application which was designed and developed following a user-centred approach.
AB - This paper reports on the design and development of a surface computing application in support of collaborative idea creation and thematic categorisation. C.A.R.T (Collaborative Assisted Repository for Tabletops) allows up to 4 users to simultaneously interact with virtual objects, each containing a single concept, to create thematic categories. Each object, which replicates a physical post-it on a multi-touch tabletop, is created by one of the team members either previous to the meeting or during the initial stage. The application then encourages the exchange of debate and conversation by presenting the ideas one at a time for users to discuss and categorise. The resulting idea repository can be used for roadmap creation as well as comparative studies using further participants. The application's main task is similar to that of card sorting and affinity diagramming. We report on the functionality of the application which was designed and developed following a user-centred approach.
KW - Digital Repositories
KW - Idea Mapping
KW - Tabletops
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-33290-6_62
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-33290-6_62
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867671041
SN - 9783642332890
VL - 7489
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 512
EP - 516
BT - Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries - Second International Conference, TPDL 2012, Proceedings
PB - Springer
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2012
Y2 - 23 September 2012 through 27 September 2012
ER -