Paper Metaphor for Tabletop Interaction Design

The aim of this paper is to explore new metaphors for interaction design on tabletop system. Tabletop systems are shared horizontal surface for co-located collaboration, which leads to original problems when designing interactions. We propose two metaphors based on the paper: the peeling metaphor, and the slot metaphor, and then suggest a way of using them to design new interactions for solving some of the problems of tabletop systems: documents organization, documents transmission and documents duplication. Keyword: Tabletop, interaction design, paper metaphor.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: HCI
• Authors: Guillaume Besacier, Gaëtan Rey, Marianne Najm, Stéphanie Buisine, Frédéric Vernier
• Keywords: HCI 2007, Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Slot Metaphor, Tabletop Systems