This article reviews the research and evidence about multi-touch tables to provide an
analysis of their key design features and capabilities and how these might relate to their use …

Collaboration is often required for activities that are too complex or difficult to be dealt with
by a single individual. Many situations requiring information-seeking activities also call for …

Studies of search habits reveal that people engage in many search tasks involving
collaboration with others, such as travel planning, organizing social events, or working on a …

Today's Web browsers provide limited support for rich information-seeking and information-
sharing scenarios. A survey we conducted of 204 knowledge workers at a large technology …

Web search is often viewed as a solitary task; however, there are many situations in which
groups of people gather around a single computer to jointly search for information online …

Groups of users often have shared information needs--for example, business colleagues
need to conduct research relating to joint projects and students must work together on group …

Collaborative learning has been widely applied in education, and has been seen as
conducive to student learning. The advent of technology and its applications in education …

We introduce" Facet-Streams", a hybrid interactive surface for co-located collaborative
product search on a tabletop. Facet-Streams combines techniques of information …

Approximately 8 million US children have at least one immigrant parent. Lower-
socioeconomic (SES) immigrant parents often rely on their children's language skills to …

When commissioning visual art, clients and artists communicate to agree on what is to be
created. This often requires bridging a language gap in how they conceive art. To arrive at a …