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Philip Tuddenham: T3 Tabletop Toolkit
Rapid Prototyping of High-Resolution and Remote Tabletop Applications

Multi-person tabletop applications that require a high display resolution, such as collaborative web-browsing, are currently difficult to create. Tabletop systems for remote collaboration are also hard to build. As a consequence, investigation of some potentially beneficial tabletop applications has been rather limited.

T3 is a research-quality software toolkit that addresses these challenges. T3 enables researchers to create high-resolution multi-person tabletop applications rapidly for co-located or remote collaborators. It uses multiple tiled projectors to create a single seamless high-resolution tabletop display. Existing user interface components, including buttons and spreadsheets, can be used to create complex tabletop applications rapidly. Two tabletops can be connected together to support remote tabletop collaboration. This engineering is hidden behind a simple, flexible API.

T3 is freely available for non-commercial use, along with documentation and examples. At the time of writing, it has been used by five students in different projects at the University of Cambridge, and in a project at MIT. The photos illustrate my doctoral research, and work undertaken by undergraduate students that I have supervised.

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Technical Information about T3

The toolkit is described in detail in my doctoral dissertation (see below).

The toolkit is also described in less detail in: Philip Tuddenham and Peter Robinson. T3: Rapid Prototyping of High-Resolution and Mixed-Presence Tabletop Applications. Proc. 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP'07), Newport, RI, October 2007.

Contact Information

My email address is: 'Philip.Tuddenham', followed by '@cl.cam.ac.uk'.

I'm pleased to discuss T3, but please note that the software comes with no warranty and I no longer maintain it.

Publications

Full Papers

Philip Tuddenham and Peter Robinson. Territorial Coordination and Workspace Awareness in Remote Tabletop Collaboration. To appear in Proc. 27th SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'09), Boston, MA, April 2009.

Philip Tuddenham and Peter Robinson. Distributed Tabletops: Supporting Remote and Mixed-Presence Tabletop Collaboration. Proc. 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP'07), Newport, RI, October 2007.

Philip Tuddenham and Peter Robinson. T3: Rapid Prototyping of High-Resolution and Mixed-Presence Tabletop Applications. Proc. 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP'07), Newport, RI, October 2007.

Philip Tuddenham and Peter Robinson. Improved Legibility of Text for Multiprojector Tiled Displays. In Proc. 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (PROCAMS'07), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2007.

Doctoral Dissertation

Tabletop interfaces for remote collaboration. University of Cambridge Ph.D. thesis. Available as University of Cambridge Computer Lab Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-734, December 2008.

Posters, Doctoral Consortium submissions and Workshop Papers

Tabletop Interfaces for Remote Document Review Meetings. Tabletop Interfaces for Remote Document Review Meetings. 2nd International Workshop Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents, November 2007.

Philip Tuddenham and Peter Robinson. T3: Rapid Prototyping of High-Resolution Tabletop Applications. EQUATOR Sharable Interfaces workshop at the Open University, June 2007.

Philip Tuddenham and Peter Robinson. Distributed Tabletops: Territoriality and Orientation in Distributed Collaboration. Student Research Competition at CHI'07, San Jose, California, April 2007.

Philip Tuddenham and Peter Robinson. T3: A Toolkit for High-Resolution Tabletop Interfaces. Poster in Ext. Abstr. CSCW'06, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 2006.

Philip Tuddenham and Peter Robinson. Remote Review Meetings on a Tabletop Interface. Poster in Ext. Abstr. CSCW'06, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 2006.

Philip Tuddenham. Remote Review Meetings on a Tabletop Interface. Doctoral Consortium submission in Ext. Abstr. CSCW'06, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 2006.

Philip Tuddenham and Peter Robinson. Large Displays for Document-Centric Meetings. Human-Centred Technology Postgraduate Workshop, Brighton, September 2006.

Philip Tuddenham and Peter Robinson. Large High-Resolution Displays for Collaboration. Information Visualization and Interaction Techniques for Collaboration across Multiple Displays workshop at CHI 2006.

Philip Tuddenham and Maja Vukovic. Ubiquitous Service Discovery using TRIP. Poster in Ext. Abstr. Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp). 2004, Nottingham, UK.