In practice, this means that ordinary elements of the rooms, such as the walls or tables, could become the interactive surfaces similar to contemporary tablets, but with a significantly bigger screens, tailored to be accessed by multiple users at the same time.
Such solutions are, in fact, available even today. To provide the examples:
1) Samsung SU40 with Microsoft PixelSense (previously known as the Microsoft Surface)
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| Samsung SU40. Source: http://www.mymultitouch.de |
More info: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/pixelsense/whatissurface.aspx
2) Mozayo Multi-Touch Table(s)
More info: http://www.mozayo.com
3) MyMULTITOUCH Walls and Tables
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| MyMULTITOUCH Interactive Wall. Source: http://www.multi-touch-screen.co/multiuser-multitouch-video-wall |
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| MyMULTITOUCH Interactive Wall. Source: http://www.multi-touch-screen.co/multiuser-multitouch-video-wall |
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| MyMULTITOUCH Interactive Table. Source: http://www.multi-touch-screen.co/multitouch-table/ideum-mt55-multitouch-table/ |
More info: http://www.multi-touch-screen.co
I strongly believe that such devices could be successfully used in the libraries of the future, as they promote collaboration and could make the learning process more fun. What is more, as the future libraries from numerous perspectives could be regarded rather as the places for the proper team work, instead of the mere repositories of the books, I strongly believe that one could find some interesting applications for those devices. Personally, I think it would be pretty cool to have the regular tables, which at any point can be turned into proper multi-touch tablets.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure children would love them too!
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| Interactive tablet at Early Years Nursery School. Source:http://www.earlyyearsnurseryschool.com/2011/08/children-get-interactive-with-our-new-touch-screen-tablet/ |
We have a room full of interesting stuff like this on KTH, but i think the HCI-department is in charge
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