This project aims to study how large displays can be used to support collaborative activity in both meeting room and office contexts. We have studied how people make use of meeting room surfaces such as whiteboards, corkboards and tabletops to work together, and are now studying how we can make use of this understanding to design innovative large display technologies to support that collaboration.

Our early work has produced a framework that discusses the activities that surfaces are involved in, the roles surfaces play in collaborative activity, and the affordances provided by different surfaces to support these roles and activities.

Taking some of these findings, we have been prototyping collaborative workspaces that combine digital tabletop displays with large vertical displays in a seamless manner. We envision such workspaces providing users with a fluid means of presenting and making sense of information such as digital media. In particular, we are exploring how the tabletop display can be used to manipulate and collaborate around content while the 'large vertical can be used for presentation and sharing.

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