A list of interactive tables

Posted: January 10th, 2005 | 44 Comments »

THIS LIST OF INTERACTIVE TABLE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED FOR AGES, it was collected for a project that I’ve done few years ago that is now completed

A list of interactive tables that may support collaboration (for students projects in our cscw course:

basic meeting tables:

  1. della rovere
  2. gestarr

interactive tables:

  1. scoop
  2. chatter
  3. the drift table
  4. future office table
  5. dialogtable
  6. lumisight table
  7. hitachi tabletop
  8. Habitat
  9. Interactable
  10. Philips café table (my favorite)
  11. the little table
  12. sensetable (via regine)
  13. tableportation (via regine)
  14. The Storytelling Table
  15. MultiAudable (.pdf)
  16. MapNews Table (.pdf).
  17. floating number

    18. (via regine)

  18. The Table Childhood (via regine)
  19. The Rogue ambience table
  20. Planar Modular Display (thanks jeff)
  21. froggies
  22. Individual fancies
  23. Lo-Tek (via Long Live the Network)
  24. DissemiNET Table (via Long Live the Network)
  25. onomy tilty table
  26. Pond
  27. Le signal
  28. Audiopad
  29. The Message Table
  30. Natural Interactions
  31. MayDay Bar
  32. Light Tables
  33. The Key Table
  34. Music Tables
  35. Turn Table
  36. Intelligent vibrations
  37. tviews
  38. iTable
  39. Counteractive (interactive cookbook)
  40. Lazy Susan Interactive Table
  41. smart table
  42. reac table
  43. the Echoes table (.pdf)
  44. various tables at interact lab
  45. reactive table
  46. Smartskin
  47. The drumming table
  48. MouseHaus
  49. Tonetable
  50. Living Jukeboy
  51. magic board
  52. coeno
  53. MUSICtable
  54. Philips’ Entertaible
  55. Tequila Sunset
  56. Beat Jigsaw
  57. Gullivers Welt
  58. Conversation table
  59. Misto Table (HP)
  60. The sunlight table
  61. Gispen XS
  62. Weight table
  63. Proactive Desk
  64. TabulaTouch
  65. hap hep hip hop
  66. Concerto table
  67. Touchtable
  68. Symbolic table
  69. Amebeats
  70. tangible table
  71. microsoft surface
  72. sandspuren
  73. Taito Tabletop Game
  74. Update! GranulatSynthese

Thank you regine for some pointers!

44 Comments on “A list of interactive tables”

  1. 1 Long live the network » Tables and Walls said at 2:09 am on January 19th, 2005:

    [...] sts are listed dialog.walkerart.org). Turns out i got beat to the punch there is already a pretty nice list on the aforementio [...]

  2. 2 we make money not art said at 9:08 am on January 11th, 2005:

    Interactive tables
    Nocolas has a great list of interactive tables. I’m a sucker for interactive tables and was deeply offended as he found some tables I had never heard of! Here are some: Philips Café Table displays a selection of community content…

  3. 3 we make money not art said at 10:12 am on January 11th, 2005:

    Tableportation
    First part on my revenge over Nicolas! Tableportation, by Interactive Design Institute (Ivrea, Italy) laureates Giorgio Olivero and Peggy Thoeny, is a system that allows café guests from different tables to observe each other and be observed. People ca…

  4. 4 miss table said at 4:11 pm on January 11th, 2005:





    http://www.aec.at/en/center/project.asp?iProjectID=12788
    http://www.interaction-ivrea.it/theses/2003-04/tableportation/tp_research_13.html
    http://people.interaction-ivrea.it/p.thoeny/_Thesis/3rd_References.htm
    via chris from http://www.pixelsumo.com
    http://www.storytable.com/html/home.html
    This one via bjorn from http://www.waag.org:8080/waagsite/

  5. 5 we make money not art said at 6:29 pm on January 11th, 2005:

    Floating Numbers table
    Here’s another interactive table. A particularly gorgeous one. For an exhibition in the Jewish Museum, in Berlin, new media group ART+COM (in collaboration with Hürlimann + Lepp Ausstellungen) was commissionned the “floating.numbers” project to illu…

  6. 6 we make money not art said at 2:17 pm on January 12th, 2005:

    The table that didn’t fancy me
    The Table: Childhood 1984-2001, by Max Dean and Raffaello D’ Andrea, is a robotic table that selectively interacts with persons who enter the room, but it will choose only one viewer among them. As long as that visitor stays, he…

  7. 7 suno_iNTERACTIVE bloG said at 6:56 pm on January 12th, 2005:

    互動桌面大集合lists of interactive table
    nicolas nova整理了十數件不錯的互動桌面清單 好樣的:D interactive tables: scoop the drift table future office table dialogtable lumisight table hitachi tabletop Habitat Interactable Philips café table (my favorite) the little table sen…

  8. 8 suno_iNTERACTIVE bloG said at 7:08 pm on January 12th, 2005:

    互動桌面大集合lists of interactive table
    nicolas nova整理了十數件不錯的互動桌面清單 好樣的:D interactive tables: scoop the drift table future office table dialogtable lumisight table hitachi tabletop Habitat Interactable Philips café table the little table sensetable tablep…

  9. 9 we make money not art said at 9:55 am on January 13th, 2005:

    Rogue Ambience Table
    Here’s the interactive table of the day. RAT, the Rogue Ambience Table, was designed in 2001 by KDR (Kitchen Rogers Design) and Dominique Robson. RAT allows its users (called “the Deceivers”) to fool the person on the other end of…

  10. 10 we make money not art said at 12:11 pm on January 14th, 2005:

    Sur la table
    The table of the day. In the Sur la table installation, by Osman Khan, actions that occur on/over a table (placing objects, eating food, hand gestures, etc…) are amplified through projection. A camera above the table captures events occurring on/over…

  11. 11 we make money not art said at 1:17 pm on January 15th, 2005:

    Table of animal noises
    This is the table of the day: Froggies, by Josh Nimoy, is a table prototype with a screen embedded into the surface that acts as an arena for virtual life. Children can play with virtual animals by placing symbolic markers…

  12. 12 we make money not art said at 7:15 pm on January 17th, 2005:

    Interactive Teatable
    Another interactive table: Individual Fancies, by British artist Beryl Graham, investigates loneliness and isolation, and ways in which people overcome it. On the table, a teapot and four cups. Four fixed chairs are fitted with a pressure sensor to reg…

  13. 13 we make money not art said at 8:11 pm on April 1st, 2005:

    reacTable
    Yet another musical table! Video is good fun tho’ The reacTable* allows collaborative performances by professional musicians without the limits of many screen-based interfaces. The table is played by manipulating a set of objects placed on top of it. …

  14. 14 we make money not art said at 8:32 am on May 24th, 2005:

    (Another) coffee table that can compute
    The WSJ has an article on a series of gadgets that are being previewed this week at the technology conference, D: All Things Digital. Hewlett-Packard is showing the Misto Table prototype, a touch-screen computer built into a (very ugly) coffee…

  15. 15 SchizoBlog said at 1:30 pm on May 24th, 2005:

    Interaktiivinen sohvapöytä
    Oho! Yksi päivä meni bloggaamatta. Ja en edes itse sitä huomannut. Olkoot. Töissä lounastauolla surffatessani meinasin saada hepulikohtauksen (tai siis sain sellaisen), kun löysin jutun interaktiivisesta pöydästä. Tuollaisen sohvapöydän minäkin haluan….

  16. 16 Sascha said at 10:18 pm on January 14th, 2006:

    Laurie Anderson’s Handphone Table is maybe one of the finest interactive installations ever made and definitely deserves to be on that list. My project Tequila Sunset is kind of an interactive table too. Cheers.

  17. 17 Sascha said at 10:20 pm on January 14th, 2006:

    Quote missing, sorry. Tequila Sunset

  18. 18 Interactive Architecture dot Org » Update on Interactive Tables said at 6:31 pm on January 15th, 2006:

    [...] Regine from wmmna and Nicolas Nova from pasta and vinegar have put together an excellent list of interactive tables. [...]

  19. 19 abstractmachine » Hypertable friends said at 12:31 am on January 16th, 2006:

    [...] Over at Pasta and Vinegar they came up with a different list of Interactive tables. Their list is a lot larger, but far from complete. There are even industrial interfaces of this sort for sale, such as the system by Hitatchi that was exhibited at the ZKM exhibit on democracy. Hypertables (interactive or not) are a common fantasme. I’m sure that we’ll be seeing more from them. [...]

  20. 20 Gav said at 12:35 am on January 16th, 2006:

    Cool List.
    I have made an interactive table too!
    Simple accessible djing for everyone
    http://www.beatjigsaw.com
    Gav

  21. 21 joe s. said at 12:04 am on January 17th, 2006:

    What about wall surfaces? whiteboards? why just tables?

  22. 22 Nicolas said at 12:14 am on January 17th, 2006:

    because the course was about tables but I am also interested in walls, I think there is also a blog entry about it: http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2005/01/13/tech-a-list-of-interactive-walls-and-boards/

  23. 23 kai said at 1:04 am on January 17th, 2006:

    that’s a cool list and i want to add one more item.
    i saw (and played with) it last year at the ars electronica center in linz, austria. the table works as a stage and is part of a mixed reality installation (gulliver’s world) where you can put together different parts of a virtual world, all created instantly. you could mold plastiline and took a 3d-scann, took videos from yourself in a green box, draw simple colored rotating objects, and so on. it was one of the most involving, fun and creative installation i saw (sure, it was meant for kids :) okay, here’s the link: http://www.aec.at/en/futurelab/projects_sub.asp?iProjectID=12800
    it has an own webstite, too. it’s only in german, but worth viewing: http://www.aec.at/gulliverswelt/makingof.htm

  24. 24 aedeas group, llc » Conversation Starter! said at 10:40 pm on January 19th, 2006:

    [...] A list for table fanatics. [...]

  25. 25 Bruce said at 6:23 pm on February 3rd, 2006:

    Off the list, but one of the first back in 1999 was the table at MoMA for the Un-Private House exhibit -

  26. 26 RoRk at Work » Blog Archive » Augmented table strategy games, video game design looks at board games. said at 11:42 am on May 10th, 2006:

    [...] Interactive tables are hot and games are getting excited… [...]

  27. 27 thedemos » Blog Archive » Interactive Table : DiamonadTouch said at 8:13 am on June 12th, 2006:

    [...] 有關網址: DiamondTouch: http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch/ Pasta and vinegar >> A list of Interactive Table [...]

  28. 28 futnuh said at 7:36 am on October 11th, 2006:

    Not sure if this is on the list yet. Just saw it on New Scientist:

    “The Blue Eye table consists of a glass surface with a camera overhead and a projector and a mirror underneath. A user places an object on the glass surface and presses a button to copy it to the screen beneath. Once imported, the images can then easily be moved, stretched and even animated by a user.”

    http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn10261&feedId=online-news_rss20

  29. 29 Art Posy (6) at Ochblog said at 6:13 pm on November 2nd, 2006:

    [...] Squeezing music out of instruments is great fun, so why not make it a soft ball? I stumbled on a couple nice experimental lists worth checking [recognize audiopad?]. This is sort of touchscreen materials. While at it, dreamlines is fun too (bit retro). Type a dream and watch. Legrady has cool stuff, does crash often (!). Does this look as online flaming to you? Can you make something of this gallery? Enjoy. Posted in Art. [...]

  30. 30 ArtScienceTechnologyBlog » Blog Archive » Interactive tables said at 3:05 am on January 16th, 2007:

    [...] Here can be found a huge list of different tabletop display systems. Might be inspiring for us. [...]

  31. 31 Melissa Quintanilha said at 7:07 pm on February 18th, 2007:

    Here is a project that uses physical objects on a backlit wall panel to mix different sounds:
    http://interactionthesis.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/amebeats/

  32. 32 native » Interactive Tables said at 2:37 pm on February 20th, 2007:

    [...] I stumbled once again upon this great list of interactive tables on pasta and vinegar . A great blog, by the way… [...]

  33. 33 Le blog de multimedialab.be » Archive du blog » Scrapple said at 2:47 am on February 22nd, 2007:

    [...] Voir “A list of interactive tables” par Nicolas Nova. [...]

  34. 34 Ipod Toilet Dock said at 12:23 am on March 7th, 2007:

    Ipod Toilet Dock

    useful

  35. 35 intuity.medialab. » Blog Archiv » Microsoft scratching the surface said at 9:29 am on June 1st, 2007:

    [...] Einen ganz anderen Eindruck des Unternehmens aus Redmond erhält man allerdings wenn man einen Blick auf Microsoft Surface wirft. Das sieht alles andere als tot aus. Das Konzept eines interaktiven Tisches und des Multi Touch Screens ist nicht neu. Aber die Umsetzung und die Präsentation sind schon recht beeindruckend. Wirklich ein schönes Konzept. [...]

  36. 36 Florian Fuchs, Sybille Neumeyer said at 3:33 pm on September 15th, 2007:

    Hi there,

    we like your list with interactive tables very much. we´ve also done a student project which might be interesting for you and maybe you can post it in your list ;-)

    http://gestaltung.fh-wuerzburg.de/blogs/museum_20/?author=10

    thanx, florian

  37. 37 Daniel said at 12:32 am on December 28th, 2007:

    Hi all,

    Interesting collection ok links, but it is not complete. Please take a look here:

    http://it.youtube.com/profile?user=i3pgroup

    Daniel

  38. 38 Microsoft en AT&T zetten Surface in om ringtones en wallpapers te verkopen « “Library on the run” said at 12:49 pm on April 3rd, 2008:

    [...] zetten Surface in om ringtones en wallpapers te verkopen 3 april 2008 We zien al jaren interactieve tafels als concept voorbij komen, maar Microsoft is toch echt degene die de technologie naar een breder [...]

  39. 39 Microsoft’s Surface : Part 2 « motion design said at 8:35 pm on April 5th, 2008:

    [...] Main Site & documents >>> Why it took so long >>> The essential list of interactive tables [...]

  40. 40 » 互動桌子 Survey said at 9:41 am on April 6th, 2008:

    [...] 不知道為什麼，逛到了這個超級棒的網頁，竟然還蒐集了所有有關的互動桌面應用。看來要花點時間消化一下。 [...]

  41. 41 links for 2008-05-10 « Mandarine said at 6:35 am on May 10th, 2008:

    [...] A list of interactive tables A list of interactive tables that may support collaboration. (tags: multitouch display design research list furniture) [...]

  42. 42 Evoluce said at 12:20 pm on November 27th, 2009:

    Hi guys!

    You forgot our 47inch true mutli-touch (and multi-pen) full-hd LCD :)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VELPBbYN3hI

    Best

  43. 43 mablog » Detailliertere Inhalte… said at 3:36 am on December 1st, 2009:

    [...] Liste mit extrem vielen Touch-Projekten – [...]

  44. 44 Andrew said at 1:16 pm on August 19th, 2010:

    http://www.affiliatearticlewriters.com/goofing-off-time-outtakes/

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