RSSMS Surface app: Combine and Create
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This week we started to experiment with the Combine & Create application for the MS Surface table. The application allows two people to combine slides from two personal folders into one new presentation and subsequently receive the result in their inbox. It illustrates some of the possibilities of the Surface table: for instance, as you drag slides from the folders on the shared working area you can “staple” them (i.e., connect them) using a black pawn. This interplay of virtual and physical objects is an interesting topic for further research.
While much of the existing applications for the MS Surface table focus on communication with customers, Combine & Create provides an example of how the table can support knowledge work as well. Especially for working with visuals, or visual information, from different perspectives such an application could prove useful.
The coming weeks we will experiment with the application at the Rabobank, gather user feedback and evaluate this application. We’ll keep you posted on the results.
Tags: collaboration
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I don’t understand why you need two cursors for this. Why doesn’t it drag and connect when the new slide is close enough? Now you drag it to the other slide and then another click is needed to connect (if I’m not incorrect).
By the way, is this Rabobank’s Surface? Or Novay’s?
Hi Samuel, thanks for your comment.
The Combine & Create application now runs at Rabobank’s Surface. What you see in the video is recorded from a demo running at a desktop computer.
At the Surface table, connecting the two slides is done by putting a physical object (black pawn) on the slides’ ‘eyes’. We have designed it this way to show the possibilities of using physical objects on the Surface table as tools to work with.