Connected touch tables for remote collaboration

Abstract

In most of today projects, the digital data, knowledge and expertise required are so large that a single person is far from enough to achieve the best decisions. Many critical processes now require several people to share the project specific information as well as their own views to collectively converge towards a right conclusion. Touch tables are promising collaborative work interfaces, but require the development of specific functionalities related to their horizontal format. An especially important element is the remote collaboration one, which should ensure distant teams can work together as efficiently as if they were working close to each other. To bring such interfaces out of the lab and into real-world industrial processes, we have developed several solutions which should ease the integration of such tables in existing data and systems.