Interactive Tables in the Wild Visitor Experiences with Multi-Touch Tables in the Arctic Exhibit at the Vancouver Aquarium

• Main Authors: Uta Hinrichs, Sheelagh Carpendale
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: 5 Contents; Arctic; Heywood
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.224.9051; http://www.utahinrichs.de/uta/uploads/Publications/Publications/interactiveTablesInTheWild.pdf

This report describes and discusses the findings from a field study that was conducted at the Vancouver Aquarium to investigate how visitors explore and experience large horizontal multi-touch tables as part of public exhibition spaces. The study investigated visitors ’ use of two different tabletop...