tangible user interfaces in order to improve collaborative interactions and decision making...

TANGIBLE USER INTERFACES IN ORDER TO IMPROVE COLLABORATIVE INTERACTIONS AND DECISION MAKING

Alessandra Scotta, Henk Scholten, Sisi Zlatanova, Erik van Borkulo

Content

> Challenges in Emergency Response

> Collaboration: requirements

> The Geodan TangiTable

> Demo

Challenges in Emergency responce

Regional Operational Team (ROT):

> cooperation task: better cooperate between head of each discipline

> supervision task: take the right decisions reducing time

> coordination task: coordinate actions of field units

Example: August 2005

Integrated Call Centre

Gelderland Midden

FIRE!!

Example: ROT, ADS Gelderland Midden

ROT: Geo-informatie

Presentation: on the map

Emergency response: crisis reaction today

Eem meer, Almere, 24 May 2008

Collaboration: in the past and now

Discussion on a paper map or ... Map projected on the wall

Innovations: presentation of information

Attributes

2D presentation

3D presentation

AR presentation

Source: Zlatanova, UDMS 2004

Source: www.maptable.nl

Innovations: interaction with data

Tangible table: the future of crisis response?

Requirements to systems for collaboration

> intuitive

> easy to use, easy human-system interaction

> no special training required

> supportive in collaborations between members involved

> can be used daily

> possibility to perform tasks in parallel

Tangible table systems

> The output can be be projected on a table

> Information onthe table is ‘touchable’ for the users

> Can be combined with differnet devices (i.e. other screens)

> The information can be presented in different modes depending on the eedof the users

The Geodan TangiTable (2003)

HR projector + sensor

Frame

Output layer

(Extra output devices)

The Geodan TangiTable (2003)

> HR projector

> Web cams (sensors)

> Set of colour paterns

MERL DiamondTouch

> Multi-point: multiple touch from one or more points

> Identification: who touches what

MERL DiamondTouch

> Debris Tolerant: objects on the table do not interfere

Coffee Pen

MERL DiamondTouch

> Multi space: possibilities for integration with other devices

> Recognize gestures (e.g. one or more fingers, hand)

System Architecture

SOAP service

Touch Table Client

.NET 3.0 FrameworkSharpMap, S&R WMS client (,CarbonTools)…

WMS Other web service

Oracle SQL server Postgres ….

•Standards

•Distributed

•Service oeriented

•Open sourse

•Follows the systems architecture of

GDI4DM

This was last year

> 5th of march tests with CCS

> MSc research on usability (very well accepted)

> http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch/DiamondTouch.mov

> Surface (Microsoft)

> http://www.microsoft.com/surface/index.html

GDI4DM: http://www.gdi4dm.nl

> Verkeer en Waterstaat, Adviesgroep Geo-informatie

> Kadaster

> Provincie Gelderland

> Veiligheidsregio Gelderland Midden e.a.

> Multiteam

> Vrije universiteit Amsterdam

> Wageningen universiteit

> Technische universiteit Delft

> Geodan