Here’s a sneak peak of Stephen Voida‘s Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2009 (ITS ’09) paper titled: Getting Practical with Interactive Tabletop Displays: Designing for Dense Data, “Fat Fingers,” Diverse Interactions, and Face-to-Face Collaboration [ PDF | MOV ]. This paper will be presented in Banff, Alberta, Canada on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 during the “Extending Basic Surface Interaction Capabilities” paper session from 10:30 – 12:30.

Visualization of the Lark paper from Wordle.net.

From: FFFFOUND!

If you’re at Vis Week 2009 in Atlantic City this week, come check out my paper talk titled Lark: Coordinating Co-located Collaboration with Information Visualization. The talk is part of the InfoVis track, during the “Collaborative Visualization” session chaired by Jeff Heer on Thursday October 15, 2009 from 4:15 – 5:55 pm in the Blenheim room. You can check out a copy of the paper and accompanying video here.

Here’s a teaser screen shot of the system:

Over the last week I’ve been updating PantherModem.com bit by bit. I’ve added links to my Innovis publications page, posted my visualization portfolio, and did some general house keeping. I think the renovations are now done, and I hope you like the changes.

Before I go, I’ll leave you with my new favourite picture (and my first HDR photo) which I shot last weekend: