The following is a timeline of interactive tables. These tables may involve multi-touch, single-touch, audio, objects, or other unique types of table interactions.
If you have an interactive table that is not on the list, please leave a comment or send me a message and I will update the list appropriately.
note: I cannot promise the following links are current and that the dates and names for each table is accurate. If you see a mistake, please let me know.
1998
- DissemiNET Table – Sawad Brooks / Beth Stryker for Wexner Center for the Arts
- Interactable – Fraunhofer
1999
- The Magic Board Project – CLIPS-IMAG, University of Grenoble
2000
- Lazy Susan Interactive Table
- Luminous Planning Table – Eran Ben-Joseph / Hiroshi Ishii / John Underkoffler / Ben Piper / Luke Yeung / MIT Media Lab / School of Architecture and Planning
- Natural Interactions – Natural Interaction
- Smallfish – Masaki Fujihata / Kiyoshi Furukawa / Wolfgang Münch
2001
- Counteractive (Interactive Cookbook) – MIT Media Lab
- DiamondSpin – MERL
- DiamondTouch – MERL
- Rogue Ambience Table – KDR (Kitchen Rogers Design) and Dominique Robson
- The Pond – Swedish Institute of Computer Science
- The Table Childhood – Max Dean / Raffaello D’ Andrea
- Tonetable – John Bowers
2002
- Audiopad – James Patten / Ben Recht / Hiroshi Ishii
- iTable – Standford HCI Group
- Smartskin – Takaaki Ishizawa /Kentarou Fukuchi /Asako Toda
- Tasting Music – Michihito Mizutani / Media Lab Helsinki
2003
- Habitat – Dipak Patel / Aoife Ní Mhóráin / Stefan Agamanolis /MIT Media Lab
- Individual Fancies – Beryl Graham
- Music Table – Rodney Berry / Masami Suzuki / Naoto Hikawa / Mao Makino
- Planar Modular Display – Dan Rosenfeld / Michael Zawadzki / Jeremi Sudol / Ken Perlin / NYU Media Research Lab
- Reactable – Reactable Systems
- Smart Table – University of California, Los Angeles
- Tableportation – Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
- Tangible MouseHaus – Chen-Je Huang / Ellen Yi-Luen Do / Mark D Gross
- Tangible StorySims – MIT MediaLab
- UbiTable – MERL
- Weight table
2004
- Floating Numbers – Jüdisches Museum Berlin
- Froggies – Josh Nimoy
- Gullivers Welt – Ars Electronica Futurelab
- Hitachi Tabletop – Hitachi
- Instant City – Sibylle Hauert / Daniel Reichmuth / Rosen & Spademan Enterprise
- iTheremin – Thorsten Karrer / Daniel Beck
- Le signal – Douglas Edric Stanley
- Lemur – JazzMutant
- Lumisight Table – NTT / The University of Tokyo
- MayDay Bar – Check Point Media
- MultiAudable – Tama Art University / NICT / AIST
- Proactive Desk – ATR Media Information Science
- The Drift Table – William W. Gaver / Albrecht Schmidt / John Bowers / Anthony Steed / Andrew Boucher / Nicholas Villars / Hans Gellerson / Brendan Walker / Sarah Pennington
- The Storytelling Table – Waag Society
- The Sunlight Table – Stuart Wood
2005
- Audiocube – Daniel Dobler / Philipp Stampfl
- BlipTronic3000 – Peter Benett / Sean Toru / Lisa Tutte-Scali
- Coeno – Media Interaction Lab
- ConDio – Talaganov Goce / Cruz Mario Alberto / Lorensen Christen Lau / Thomsen Peter Pozza, /Fredslund Anders
- Conversation table – MIT
- Living Jukeboy – Catalin Lazia / Parsons Design and Technology
- MUSICtable – Ian Stavness / Jennifer Gluck / Leah Vilhan / Sidney Fels
- Orai/Kalos – Paul Hertz / Northwestern University, Center for Art and Technology
- Philips café table – Philips
- The Echoes table – Human-Computer Interaction Design, School of Informatics
Indiana University Bloomington - The Little Table – Maxime Lecours / Concordia University
- The Message Table – Shawn Bonkowski / Dana Gordon
- Touch Gestures – MERL
- Touchtable – Northrop Grumman
- Scrapple – Golan Levin
- Sensetable – Pattenstudio
2006
- Concerto table – Nicholas Lovegrove / Demian Repucci
- Digitable
- Entertaible – Philips
- FTIR Multritouch Interaction – Jeff Han / New-York University
- Gispen XS – Emilie Tromp
- Hap Hep Hip Hop – Guillermo Lorenzo
- Intelligent vibrations
- Interact lab – Huong Thu Nguyen
- Misto Table – HP Labs
- Reactive Table – IFinteractive
- Scoop – Alan F. Smeaton / Hyowon Lee / Colum Foley / Sinead McGivney
- Symbolic table – Tabula Rasa
- TabulaTouch – Stefano Baraldi
- Tviews – MIT Media Lab
2007
- Amebeats – Melissa Quintanilha
- Beat Jigsaw – Gavin Morris
- GranulatSynthese – Steffi Beckhaus / Roland Schröder-Kroll / Martin Berghoff
- Interactive Surround Sound Cube – Markus Quarta / Christian Benesch / Herbert Müller
- Light Tables
- Reactogon – Mark Burton / Multimedia Design, Northumbria University
- Sandspuren Florian Fuchs / Sybille Neumeyer
- Taito Tabletop Game – Taito
- The Key Table – William Gaver John Bowers / Andrew Boucher / Andy Law / Sarah Pennington / Brendan Walker
- Xenakis – Philipp Pötzl / Kai Linde / Max Meier / Bettina Conradi / Peter Lachenmaier / Markus Bischof
2008
- Audiotouch – Seth Sandler
- Bricktable – Jordan Hochenbaum / Owen Vallis / FlipMu
- Microsoft Surface – Microsoft
- ProjectTISCH – Technische Universität München
- Smart Table – Smart Technologies
- Zen Waves – Eitan Glinert /Nozomi Kakikuchi / Jason Furtado / Tiffany Wang / Ben Howel
2009
- Onomy Tilty Table – Onomy Labs
2010
2011
- Microsoft Surface 2 – Microsoft
REFERENCES
I used the following links to gather information. Many links within the articles were either outdated or broken. I manually updated each link to it’s current location.
