MemTable: an integrated system for capture and recall of shared histories in group workspaces

By Seth E. Hunter, Pattie Maes, Stacey D. Scott, Henry Kaufman. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011

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This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of an interactive tabletop system that supports co-located meeting capture and asynchronous search and review of past meetings. The goal of the project is to evaluate the design of a conference table that augments the everyday work patterns of small collaborative groups by incorporating an integrated annotation system. We present a holistic design that values hardware ergonomics, supports heterogeneous input modalities, generates a memory of all user interactions, and provides access to historical data on and off the table. We present a user evaluation that assesses the usefulness of the input modalities and software features, and validates the effectiveness of the MemTable system as a tool for assisting memory recall.

Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Human-Computer Interaction

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