Mediated Tabletop Interaction In The Biology Lab Exploring the Design Space of the Rabbit Ubicomp 2011 Beijing, China September 21, 2011 Juan David Hincapi- Ramos Aurlien Tabard Jakob E. Bardram Related Work Static Means Shape and Color Fiducial and Magnetic Markers Active Means Dynamic properties Anoto-based IR LED diodes Bluetooth + Blinking Displays RFID-based Triangulation Reader Matrixes Reader on Object Frame Difference Algebra X Y Tube ID Orientation The racks are always holding the tubes. The Rabbit Augmenting the Rack Rabbit Schematics Tagged TubesTop ViewBottom View Coding Approach Reference Bits Byte 1 Byte 2 Byte 3 Byte 4 Checksum Bits Action Bits Unassigned Bits Mediated Tabletop Interaction RFID Barcodes QR codes iButton LED matrix LCD display USB Bluetooth ZigBee WiFi Technology Exploration Participatory Design Workshop 6 participants Focus Group 12 participants Technology Exploration Mediator mockup probes 6 participants, 32 pictures Grounded Theory inspired processing 6 categories and 44 tags Design Space Mediator Design Object Mediator Surface Integration Device environment Categories: Mediator design Capacity Embeddednes s Form Factor Object+Mediator+Surface Integration Reference Information Source Output Space Device Integration Surface Coupling Ecology Conclusion We introduced the concept of Mediated Tabletop Interaction We built a prototype illustrating the concept We described its design space We are looking for new occurrences of it Demo