Shared Design Space - Version 2

Project Members:
Daniel Leithinger, Steven Zhou

External Collaborator:
Michael Haller, Media Interaction Lab, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, http://www.mi-lab.org

Link to Shared Design Space - Version 1,http://mi-lab.org/projects/office-of-tomorrow/#sds

Idea:
SDS stands for Shared Design Space 1. The SDS system is designed to support creative group discussions and the simple exchange of data. In SDS Version 2, we emphasized on the usage of mobile devices as an extension of personal workspace, together with the public workspace shared on the digital table. Users can send files from their mobile phones to a digital tabletop display. On the tabletop, content can be moved, scaled, rotated and annotated using digital pens. Multiple users can work on the tabletop simultaneously. As group members stand around the tabletop display during the meeting, team discussion and interaction is encouraged (see below). Devices like digital pens enable a natural and easy input and demand little attention during group discussion. Mobile devices allow the input of the content files from local designers and even remote mobile users.

On a the tabletop, photos, videos and 3D content can be arranged and annotated.