Interactive Workspaces: Multi-user, Multi-touch, Multi-device

In multi-user and multi-device environments, users want to focus on the task at hand, while taking full advantage of group dynamics and different interaction styles. Multi-touch surfaces are well-known to support such collaboration, and while most users are barely familiar with multi-touch interaction, expectations are always high. Depending on their deployment, multi-touch systems impose specific requirements on the accessibility of the user interface. In public spaces, for example, users typically interact with the interface over a short time-span, and therefore have limited time to explore the new ways of interacting. Our research primarily focuses on creating this kind of multi-user, multi-touch and multi-device setups and enhancing their accessibility. 1