A list of interactive tables

A list of interactive tables that may support collaboration (for students projects in our cscw course:

basic meeting tables:

  1. della rovere
  2. gestarr

interactive tables:

  1. scoop
  2. chatter
  3. the drift table
  4. future office table
  5. dialogtable
  6. lumisight table
  7. hitachi tabletop
  8. Habitat
  9. Interactable
  10. Philips café table (my favorite)
  11. the little table
  12. sensetable (via regine)
  13. tableportation (via regine)
  14. The Storytelling Table
  15. MultiAudable (.pdf)
  16. MapNews Table (.pdf).
  17. floating number
  18. (via regine)

  19. The Table Childhood (via regine)
  20. The Rogue ambience table
  21. Planar Modular Display (thanks jeff)
  22. froggies
  23. Individual fancies
  24. Lo-Tek (via Long Live the Network)
  25. DissemiNET Table (via Long Live the Network)
  26. onomy tilty table
  27. Pond
  28. Le signal
  29. Audiopad
  30. The Message Table
  31. Natural Interactions
  32. MayDay Bar
  33. Light Tables
  34. The Key Table
  35. Music Tables
  36. Turn Table
  37. Intelligent vibrations
  38. tviews
  39. iTable
  40. Counteractive (interactive cookbook)
  41. Lazy Susan Interactive Table
  42. smart table
  43. reac table
  44. the Echoes table (.pdf)
  45. various tables at interact lab
  46. reactive table
  47. Smartskin
  48. The drumming table
  49. MouseHaus
  50. Tonetable
  51. Living Jukeboy
  52. magic board
  53. coeno
  54. MUSICtable
  55. Philips’ Entertaible
  56. Tequila Sunset
  57. Beat Jigsaw
  58. Gullivers Welt
  59. Conversation table
  60. Misto Table (HP)
  61. The sunlight table
  62. Gispen XS
  63. Weight table
  64. Proactive Desk
  65. TabulaTouch
  66. hap hep hip hop
  67. Concerto table
  68. Touchtable
  69. Symbolic table
  70. Amebeats
  71. tangible table
  72. microsoft surface
  73. Update! sandspuren
  74. Update! Taito Tabletop Game

Thank you regine for some pointers!

41 Responses to “A list of interactive tables”

  1. we make money not art Says:
    Interactive tables
    Nocolas has a great list of interactive tables. I’m a sucker for interactive tables and was deeply offended as he found some tables I had never heard of! Here are some: Philips Caf Table displays a selection of community content…

  2. we make money not art Says:
    Tableportation
    First part on my revenge over Nicolas! Tableportation, by Interactive Design Institute (Ivrea, Italy) laureates Giorgio Olivero and Peggy Thoeny, is a system that allows caf guests from different tables to observe each other and be observed. People ca…

  3. miss table Says:





    http://www.aec.at/en/center/project.asp?iProjectID=12788
    http://www.interaction-ivrea.it/theses/2003-04/tableportation/tp_research_13.html
    http://people.interaction-ivrea.it/p.thoeny/_Thesis/3rd_References.htm
    via chris from www.pixelsumo.com
    http://www.storytable.com/html/home.html
    This one via bjorn from http://www.waag.org:8080/waagsite/

  4. we make money not art Says:
    Floating Numbers table
    Here’s another interactive table. A particularly gorgeous one. For an exhibition in the Jewish Museum, in Berlin, new media group ART+COM (in collaboration with Hrlimann + Lepp Ausstellungen) was commissionned the “floating.numbers” project to illu…

  5. we make money not art Says:
    The table that didn’t fancy me
    The Table: Childhood 1984-2001, by Max Dean and Raffaello D Andrea, is a robotic table that selectively interacts with persons who enter the room, but it will choose only one viewer among them. As long as that visitor stays, he…

  6. suno_iNTERACTIVE bloG Says:
    互動桌面大集合lists of interactive table
    nicolas nova整理了十數件不錯的互動桌面清單 好樣的:D interactive tables: scoop the drift table future office table dialogtable lumisight table hitachi tabletop Habitat Interactable Philips café table (my favorite) the little table sen…

  7. suno_iNTERACTIVE bloG Says:
    互動桌面大集合lists of interactive table
    nicolas nova整理了十數件不錯的互動桌面清單 好樣的:D interactive tables: scoop the drift table future office table dialogtable lumisight table hitachi tabletop Habitat Interactable Philips café table the little table sensetable tablep…

  8. we make money not art Says:
    Rogue Ambience Table
    Here’s the interactive table of the day. RAT, the Rogue Ambience Table, was designed in 2001 by KDR (Kitchen Rogers Design) and Dominique Robson. RAT allows its users (called “the Deceivers”) to fool the person on the other end of…

  9. we make money not art Says:
    Sur la table
    The table of the day. In the Sur la table installation, by Osman Khan, actions that occur on/over a table (placing objects, eating food, hand gestures, etc) are amplified through projection. A camera above the table captures events occurring on/over…

  10. we make money not art Says:
    Table of animal noises
    This is the table of the day: Froggies, by Josh Nimoy, is a table prototype with a screen embedded into the surface that acts as an arena for virtual life. Children can play with virtual animals by placing symbolic markers…

  11. we make money not art Says:
    Interactive Teatable
    Another interactive table: Individual Fancies, by British artist Beryl Graham, investigates loneliness and isolation, and ways in which people overcome it. On the table, a teapot and four cups. Four fixed chairs are fitted with a pressure sensor to reg…

  12. Long live the network » Tables and Walls Says:
    […] sts are listed dialog.walkerart.org). Turns out i got beat to the punch there is already a pretty nice list on the aforementio […]

  13. we make money not art Says:
    reacTable
    Yet another musical table! Video is good fun tho’ The reacTable* allows collaborative performances by professional musicians without the limits of many screen-based interfaces. The table is played by manipulating a set of objects placed on top of it. …

  14. we make money not art Says:
    (Another) coffee table that can compute
    The WSJ has an article on a series of gadgets that are being previewed this week at the technology conference, D: All Things Digital. Hewlett-Packard is showing the Misto Table prototype, a touch-screen computer built into a (very ugly) coffee…

  15. SchizoBlog Says:
    Interaktiivinen sohvapyt
    Oho! Yksi piv meni bloggaamatta. Ja en edes itse sit huomannut. Olkoot. Tiss lounastauolla surffatessani meinasin saada hepulikohtauksen (tai siis sain sellaisen), kun lysin jutun interaktiivisesta pydst. Tuollaisen sohvapydn minkin haluan….

  16. Sascha Says:

    Laurie Anderson’s Handphone Table is maybe one of the finest interactive installations ever made and definitely deserves to be on that list. My project Tequila Sunset is kind of an interactive table too. Cheers.

  17. Sascha Says:

    Quote missing, sorry. Tequila Sunset

  18. Interactive Architecture dot Org » Update on Interactive Tables Says:

    […] Regine from wmmna and Nicolas Nova from pasta and vinegar have put together an excellent list of interactive tables. […]

  19. abstractmachine » Hypertable friends Says:

    […] Over at Pasta and Vinegar they came up with a different list of Interactive tables. Their list is a lot larger, but far from complete. There are even industrial interfaces of this sort for sale, such as the system by Hitatchi that was exhibited at the ZKM exhibit on democracy. Hypertables (interactive or not) are a common fantasme. I’m sure that we’ll be seeing more from them. […]

  20. Gav Says:

    Cool List.
    I have made an interactive table too!
    Simple accessible djing for everyone
    www.beatjigsaw.com
    Gav

  21. joe s. Says:

    What about wall surfaces? whiteboards? why just tables?

  22. Nicolas Says:

    because the course was about tables but I am also interested in walls, I think there is also a blog entry about it: http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2005/01/13/tech-a-list-of-interactive-walls-and-boards/

  23. kai Says:

    that’s a cool list and i want to add one more item.
    i saw (and played with) it last year at the ars electronica center in linz, austria. the table works as a stage and is part of a mixed reality installation (gulliver’s world) where you can put together different parts of a virtual world, all created instantly. you could mold plastiline and took a 3d-scann, took videos from yourself in a green box, draw simple colored rotating objects, and so on. it was one of the most involving, fun and creative installation i saw (sure, it was meant for kids :) okay, here’s the link: http://www.aec.at/en/futurelab/projects_sub.asp?iProjectID=12800
    it has an own webstite, too. it’s only in german, but worth viewing: http://www.aec.at/gulliverswelt/makingof.htm

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  25. Bruce Says:

    Off the list, but one of the first back in 1999 was the table at MoMA for the Un-Private House exhibit -

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  28. futnuh Says:

    Not sure if this is on the list yet. Just saw it on New Scientist:

    “The Blue Eye table consists of a glass surface with a camera overhead and a projector and a mirror underneath. A user places an object on the glass surface and presses a button to copy it to the screen beneath. Once imported, the images can then easily be moved, stretched and even animated by a user.”

    http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn10261&feedId=online-news_rss20

  29. Art Posy (6) at Ochblog Says:

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  30. ArtScienceTechnologyBlog » Blog Archive » Interactive tables Says:

    […] Here can be found a huge list of different tabletop display systems. Might be inspiring for us. […]

  31. Melissa Quintanilha Says:

    Here is a project that uses physical objects on a backlit wall panel to mix different sounds:
    http://interactionthesis.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/amebeats/

  32. native » Interactive Tables Says:

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    Ipod Toilet Dock

    useful

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  36. Florian Fuchs, Sybille Neumeyer Says:

    Hi there,

    we like your list with interactive tables very much. we´ve also done a student project which might be interesting for you and maybe you can post it in your list ;-)

    http://gestaltung.fh-wuerzburg.de/blogs/museum_20/?author=10

    thanx, florian

  37. Daniel Says:

    Hi all,

    Interesting collection ok links, but it is not complete. Please take a look here:

    http://it.youtube.com/profile?user=i3pgroup

    Daniel

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