Exploring the feasibility of using tabletop displays for construction design meetings

• Main Author: Chakrabarty, Subhanil
• Other Authors: Tory, Melanie
• Language: English; en
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: HCI; Display; Co-located; Collaboration; Design team; Interaction design; Interface; User Experience; Tiled Display; Circular Menu; Architecture; Civil; Construction engineering; Visualization; Floor plan; Design coordination; Design development; Usability; Information access; Design guidelines; UVic Subject Index::Sciences and Engineering::Applied Sciences::Computer science; UVic Subject Index::Sciences and Engineering::Psychology::Human behavior; UVic Subject Index::Sciences and Engineering::Engineering::Civil engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3230

We have investigated the feasibility of using digital tabletop displays during design team meetings to improve access to design information. To achieve this goal, we have applied various design guidelines for tabletop interface design and requirements for digital meeting scenarios in order to implement design ideas (in a prototype named Mozaic) that specifically cater to design team meetings. Mozaic intends to improve information retrieval and browsing activities during meetings thereby improving information access through a tile based layout, pop-up menu control and filtered list. We have evaluated the features of Mozaic through an exploratory study on a tabletop display (in comparison to a commonly used desktop software tool, which was also used on the tabletop) to evaluate various design ideas and ferret out design ideas for future iterations of Mozaic. We present the result of this study as observations and user feedback and discuss them in the light of interface development for design meeting situations.