ACM ISS 10-Year Impact Award for Harald Reiterer (C01) and Colleagues

November 10, 2023; Christina Warren

Congratulations to Harald Reiterer, professor at the Computer and Information Science Department of the University of Konstanz and project leader of SFB-TRR 161 project C01, and colleagues. For their paper “HuddleLamp: Spatially-aware Mobile Displays for Ad-hoc Around-the-Table Collaboration” (ACM ITS ’14), they received the 10-Year Impact Award at the 2023 ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference (ACM ISS 2023). The award recognizes papers that had a significant impact on the ISS community, the HCI community in general, or the industry.

Paper

Roman Rädle, Hans-Christian Jetter, Nicolai Marquardt, Harald Reiterer, and Yvonne Rogers. 2014. HuddleLamp: Spatially-Aware Mobile Displays for Ad-hoc Around-the-Table Collaboration. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces (ITS '14), ACM, Nov 2014. 

Abstract: We present HuddleLamp, a desk lamp with an integrated RGB-D camera that precisely tracks the movements and positions of mobile displays and hands on a table. This enables a new breed of spatially-aware multi-user and multi-device applications for around-the-table collaboration without an interactive tabletop. At any time, users can add or remove displays and reconfigure them in space in an ad-hoc manner without the need of installing any software or attaching markers. Additionally, hands are tracked to detect interactions above and between displays, enabling fluent cross-device interactions. We contribute a novel hybrid sensing approach that uses RGB and depth data to increase tracking quality and a technical evaluation of its capabilities and limitations. For enabling installation-free ad-hoc collaboration, we also introduce a web-based architecture and JavaScript API for future HuddleLamp applications. Finally, we demonstrate the resulting design space using five examples of cross-device interaction techniques.

About the conference

The leading academic venue for research on the design, development and implementation of novel interactive surface technologies and spaces, ACM ISS 2023 took place from November 5-8, 2023 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. More information can be found on the conference website: https://iss2023.acm.org/