A Multi-Touch Multi-Modal Collaborative Workspace

Cyber-commons is a truly collaborative wall display environment driven by a software framework called SAGE (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment). SAGE allows multiple users to simultaneously interact with high-resolution wall displays using a variety of input devices such as multi-touch, laptops, gyromouse, the Wiimote...
This video shows the following:

------ Multi-touch Interaction on a Wall Display ------
In this video we first show the newest multi-touch gesture interaction techniques on a 20-foot LCD-based high-resolution wall display. Increasing the size and the resolution of the display, increases the amount of visible information which makes organization more difficult and tedious. Therefore, we developed novel content organization techniques which allow users to manipulate their data to gain new insights.

------ Transforming Collaborative Research ------
Multiple users can analyze and manipulate information simultaneously through multi-modal user interfaces (e.g. touch and personal laptops). The large size and the high-resolution of the wall encourages all participants to share information by drag-and-dropping multimedia files and documents from their laptops or retrieving already loaded information from previous work sessions. Giving every user control over the wall display and allowing truly simultaneous interaction, makes the collaborative work more dynamic and intuitive since every user can participate and contribute without interfering with the others. Furthermore, every user can push their personal desktop on the wall eliminating the need to switch video cables or view only one desktop at a time, as is the case in traditional projector-based environments.

------ Transforming the Classroom ------
Cyber-commons and SAGE are in use by several professors at the University of Illinois at Chicago for teaching full-semester classes. Lecture materials can be displayed directly on the wall, dragged-and-dropped from a web browser or explained using a more traditional whiteboard. The large size and the high-resolution of the environment allows the professor to display all pertinent information simultaneously which allows students to externalize their working memory. This makes it easier to follow the class and understand the relationships between the presented materials. Furthermore, the high-resolution allows the professor to show the detail and the context of the material as opposed to sacrificing one for the other in a more traditional teaching environment.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• scalable
• adaptive
• graphics
• environment
• SAGE
• EVL
• electronic
• visualization
• ratko
• jagodic
• interaction
• wall
• display
• high-resolution
• tiled-display
• streaming
• media
• organization
• layout
• multitouch
• multi-touch
• collaborative
• multi-user

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[abrajanoc]

very modern classroom. I wish to have one of this wall. I wonder how much would it cost to have one built herein the philippines.

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[impurekind]

This would be great for the classroom and teaching like a giant touch blackboard.