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Lucia Terrenghi, Torsten Fritsche, Andreas Butz
The EnLighTable: Design of Affordances to Support Collaborative Creativity
In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Smart Graphics, ISBN 978-3540362937, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006, Springer Verlag

In this paper we discuss some interface design concepts for supporting and enhancing collaborative creativity in multi-user interactive environments. We focus on the design of affordances for direct manipulation and collaboration on table-top displays. As an application of our concepts, we introduce the EnLighTable, an appliance for creative teamwork in the selection of pictures and layout design based on a table-top touch-sensitive display. We present our rationale for the design of affordances which metaphorically relate to artifacts and map to gestures of the physical world. Finally we discuss the results of our first design iteration and introduce a possible future extension of the table-top appliance to other devices of an instrumented environment.