This research is part of the "Office of Tomorrow" project, which is funded in part by the Austrian FFG consortium (FHplus framework, no. 811407) and voestalpine Informationstechnologie GmbH.

Shared Design Space is a multi-user design workspace which enables users to simultaneously draw on a large-scale interactive table and present their work on a touch-sensitive presentation wall. The project features high resolution tabletop projection, accurate pen tracking and novel interaction techniques for the table. The setup is based on a pattern, which is tracked by the digital pens. Anoto-based pens are ballpoint-pens with an embedded camera that tracks the movements simultaneously. The pen has to be used on a specially printed paper with a pattern of tiny dots.

Credits:
FH OÖ, Hagenberg Digitale Medien (A)

Peter Brandl, Michael Haller, Daniel Leithinger, Jakob Leitner and Thomas Seifried.