MS Wissenschaft @Linz,Austria
September 28th the exhibition “Digital Unterwegs” on the ship MS Wissenschaft finally came to an end. In total it had 90.000 visitors, among them 480 school classes. The ship stopped in 38 german and austrian cities.
CrossWorlds researchers Kalja Kanellopoulos and Michael Storz contributed a multitouch table with applications for up to six players. The support staff reported us that the table was one of the most loved and most used exhibits in the exhibition. They also stated that the exhibit fostered interaction between people who didn’t know each other before and that despite its heavy usage the exhibit was still one of the easiest to maintain. On two of the last stops in Deggendorf and Regensburg we were able to conduct a user study, which will give us further insights into the mechanics and courses of action of playful tabletop collaboration.
Despite the fact, that we are still working on the detailled results of our study, it became clear, that this project was a great success and all the hard work and support for this exhibition was worthwhile.
The table is now in refurnishment and will be presented on November 17th at the Demosession at the ACM ITS conference in Dresden.
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- We visited the MS Wissenschaft in Linz on our only support trip to fix a broken USB-Hub.
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- A view in the exhibition to the entrance. Table is on the lefthand side.
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- 90.000 visitors leave some marks. But apart from some issues with our camera boxes, the overall construction proved to be very robust.
Tags: tabletop
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