Interactive Coffee Tables: Interfacing TV within an Intuitive, Fun and Shared Experience

摘要: Watching television is usually a shared experience allowing family or friends that share the same viewing interests to watch, comment and enjoy programs together. The interaction part however at opposite end being reduced traditional remote control which by itself proves very limited with respect sharing part: although among group, of interface only allows one-viewer-at-a-time interaction. We are discussing in this paper new technique for controlling TV set using one commonly available wide-area interface: coffee table. By visually designating sensitive areas on table surface, may be achieved via simple hand movements across surface performed any viewers time. final thus fun, simple, intuitive, important, wide-shareable immediately all participants.