tapted

Username: tapted

Participant details

	Network Member	Trent Apted
	Organisation/Institution	University of Sydney
	Department/Centre	School of Information Technologies
	Lab	Computer Human Adapted Interaction (chai.it.usyd.edu.au)
	Website	http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~tapted/
	Research area	Intelligent Systems Human-Computer Interaction
	Research keywords	social interface, tabletop, tabletop interface, surface computing, photo sharing, storytelling

Research Interests

The digital camera has changed the nature of photography and the photographic process, and the need for more suitable ways to share digital photographs is well understood. Digital photos may be printed, but this adds an expense, and reduces the search and distribution capabilities of photos in digital form, so some opt not to print at all. Thus some of the traditional methods of sharing photographs, such as photo albums, have been lost; along with the emotional attachment and social interaction that is possible with physical items.
We have recently begun to see hardware support for the tabletop user interface, offering a number of new ways for humans to interact with computers. Our interface, currently in the form of a high-fidelity prototype, leverages the multi-user and direct-interaction capabilities of the tabletop, as well as aspects of multimodal and pervasive computing to provide a natural interface for sharing digital photographs in a collocated social setting. However, designing such an interface and making it effective is not a straightforward task. Such an interface needs to overcome problems of clutter and orientation inherent in tabletop interfaces, and provide an experience that allows the users to ignore the computer and conduct their dialogue unhindered for a truly social interaction.

Representative Publications

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124772.1124887

https://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=record&rec_id=4969

Publications page: http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~tapted/bio.html#publications