Sketch Top: Design Collaboration on a Multi-touch Tabletop

Computer mediated group collaboration, particularly in the
design and engineering disciplines, is in need of better
applications that suit the needs of effective exchange of
information. Multi-touch surfaces offer the capabilities to
augment and better enable face-to-face interaction with
digital content and applications. This paper presents the
design, development and testing of SketchTop, a multitouch
sketching application for collocated design
collaboration.

Paul Clifton, Ali Mazalek, Jon Sanford, Claudia Rébola,
Seunghyun “Tina” Lee, Natasha Powell

Digital Media Program, School of Industrial Design
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, USA

Leif Handberg