The Ultimate List of Interactive Tables

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.

Total Count: 100 interactive tables and counting
Last Updated:4/4/11

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
• Touch & Write
• Zen Waves – Eitan Glinert /Nozomi Kakikuchi / Jason Furtado / Tiffany Wang / Ben Howel

2009

• IntuiFace – IntuiLab
• Onomy Tilty Table – Onomy Labs

2010

• BendDesk - The Media Computing Group at RWTH Aachen University
• Curve - The Media Computing Group at RWTH Aachen University
• Displax Oqtopus
• Evoluce
• Ideum
• Ilight - Immerison
• Magets - The Media Computing Group at RWTH Aachen University
• Supertouch Group

2011

• Microsoft Surface 2 – Microsoft

2012

• Mozayo Interactive

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.

• Liftlab
• DiamondSpin
• Tangible Music Tables