CONDUCTING PRELIMINARY DESIGN AROUND AN INTERACTIVE TABLETOP

DS 68-2: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 11), Impacting Society through Engineering Design, Vol. 2: Design Theory and Research Methodology, Lyngby/Copenhagen, Denmark, 15.-19.08.2011

Year: 2011
Editor: Culley, S.J.; Hicks, B.J.; McAloone, T.C.; Howard, T.J. & Reich, Y.
Author: Kendira, Atman; Gidel, Thierry; Jones, Alistair; Lenne, Dominique; Barthčs, Jean-Paul; Moulin, Claude
Series: ICED
Section: Design Theory and Research Methodology
Page(s): 366-376

Abstract

Our work lies at the intersection of preliminary design and tabletop groupware. We have constructed our own prototype, named the TATIN table, to begin developing applications for design teams. During the design of our system, through an extensive literature review we have indentified the early preliminary design phase of a project to be the area where interactive tabletops would make the greatest impact. Next, we developed software for group brainstorming sessions and conducted extensive usability experiments using this software. During the experiments, we administered subjective questionnaires and obtained extensive video footage of the session. We present our techniques for the analysis of these videos and report our results on collaboration and communication in this environment.

Keywords: USER TESTING; MULTI-TOUCH AND MULTI-USER SURFACE; GROUPWARE; CREATIVITY; COLLABORATIVE DESIGN

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