A Framework for Networked Interactive Surfaces

Abstract

The development of interactive surfaces has led to a number of applications as it allows for natural interaction and collaboration. The use of co-located collaboration on this kind of surfaces provides new possibilities. It is our belief, however, that an even higher degree of collaboration can be achieved by overcoming the boundaries of a single device or setup. Therefore, we extended our previously built multi-touch framework to realize collaborative multi-device setups. In order to assess the framework, a networked virtual world and three other applications were built to demonstrate its power.