The Digital Desk

Interaction with documents in two different worlds:

VR as an alternative?

• physical tools can be hard to replace (-> paper in offices)
• people 'like' paper

Result: Two desks

• Trade-off: -> The Digital Desk

Aim of the Digital Desk:
Instead of making the workstation more like a desk we can make the desk more like a workstation.

• paper gains electronic properties
• electronic objects gain paper properties

Schematic diagram of a DigitalDesk

Implementation of a DigitalDesk

Applications:

Calculator:

Paper Paint:

Double Digital Desk:

• shared editing of 'real documents'
• additional audio-link

Conclusions:

• desk was found generally comfortable
• more space
• more healthy than a screen
• easier on the eyes
• more manual