Table Top 2006

The First IEEE International Workshop on
Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TableTop2006)

Adelaide, South Australia, January 5-7, 2006.
http://www.tinmith.net/tabletop2006/

Support by IEEE, NICTA, University of South Australia, DSTO

The use of the tabletop as an input/output device is an exciting and emerging domain of computer systems. This is cross disciplinary domain. An example set of combining areas are as follows: projector based display systems, augmented reality, user interface technologies, multi-modal interactions, CSCW, and information visualisation.

The purpose of the workshop is two-fold, in bringing together leading researchers for following reasons:

  1. present and exchange current results of ongoing investigations
    • in a traditional oral presentation and
    • in a printed proceedings

  2. a set of workshops culminated with a set of group reports that:
    • define the current state of the art,
    • map out the current coverage of the research domain, and
    • explore future research directions.

We encourage researchers and developers in the above mentioned fields to present in the following areas:

Paper Submission:

We invite submissions of two kinds:

  1. Regular research papers of up to 8 pages, describing original research on investigations into horizontal oriented user interface based (tabletop) systems.
  2. Position papers of up to 2 pages, describing existing work and work-in-progress, and addressing the three workshop issues:
    1. How does your research define the current state of art for horizontal interactive human-computer systems?
    2. How does your research fit into the current coverage of the horizontal interactive human-computer systems research domain?
    3. What directions will you take your current research into horizontal interactive human-computer systems research?

Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file in IEEE Computer Science Press format (described at http://www.tinmith.net/tabletop2006/IEEE/Format/instruct.htm). Each paper will be peer reviewed by no less than three experts in the field. Accepted research and position papers will be included in the IEEE proceedings and presented in the paper sessions. The research and position papers with used as a foundation for the interactive collaborative sessions during the workshop addressing the following:

Submission details are available on the submission page.

Important Dates:

Please see the home page for important dates.

Conference Registration:

The TableTop 2006 conference has now finished, hence registrations are closed.

Chairs:

General Chair: Bruce Thomas (University of South Australia) Bruce.Thomas [at] unisa.edu.au

Co-Program Chairs: Morten Fjeld (Chalmers Uni. of Technology) morten [at] fjeld.ch, Masahiro Takatsuka (University of Sydney) masa [at] takatsuka.org

Contact Information:

Prof. Bruce H. Thomas
Director Wearable Computer Lab.
School of Computer and Information Science
The University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 8 8302 3464
Fax: +61 8 8302 3381