May 25 PPD10 Workshop Rome Italy

From HIT Lab Australia

We have just published the proceedings for PPD10 (Download here) - 7.3mb PDF

PPD10 is our workshop on coupled display visual interfaces on May 25, 2010 in Rome, Italy. This workshop is being held in conjunction with AVI 2010, the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interface. PPD10 will be starting from 9am on May 25th.

If you are interested in this topic you can also download the proceedings of our 2008 Workshop on designing multi-touch interaction techniques for coupled public and private displays here 6.6mb PDF

Background on Workshop

This workshop is designed for maximum audience participation, interaction and development of ownership of the resultant ideas. We aim to continue the tradition of turnover within the organisation of any workshop outcomes, for example in 2010 two of the four organisers were workshop participants at PPD’08. Participants this year will be encouraged to take a leading role in activities and ideas formulated during this workshop.

As a full day event it is structured to provide maximum time for group discussion and brainstorming. Each participant is expected to be familiar with all eleven position papers accepted prior to the event.

The workshop is structured around four sessions (separated by the morning break, lunch and afternoon break). In the first session the participants briefly introduce themselves and provide a brief presentation highlighting the key points from their position papers. Following this a brainstorming session is employed to develop key discussion topics for the two midday sessions. In the second and third sessions the entire group is divided into sub- groups moderated by the workshop organisers to have focused discussions on some of the key topics identified earlier. In the fourth session the entire group reconvenes to discuss the advances and challenges identified in the breakout discussions.

The workshop concludes with a detailed discussion to define immediate next steps on two fronts. Firstly, the discussion of a proposed research book drawing on submissions from some of the workshop audience. Our previous workshop resulted in a Special Issue of the Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing in 2009 by Springer-Verlag, entitled “Interaction with coupled and public displays”. Second, we seek discussion and input into the development of a revised European Cooperation in Science and Technology action (COST) proposal entitled “Technologies, Tools and Techniques for the design of coupled display visual interfaces”. Such a COST action will be a long lived outcome from this workshop.