Individual and Collaborative Benefits of Interactive Large-Screen Display Systems

技术进步大大提高了交互式大屏幕显示（LSD）系统的可行性，例如交互式墙壁和桌面。商业互动墙已经有十多年的历史了，加拿大建造的SMART BoardTM在许多北美学校和董事会中都有使用。商业数字桌面直到最近才出现，最引人注目的是微软分别在2007年和2008年发布的surface和SMART TableTM。然而，与苹果的iPadTM等小型多点触控设备不同，lsd的采用速度要慢得多。这种缓慢的采用部分是由于缺乏经验证据证明LSD系统比现有技术提供的具体好处。考虑到LSD系统相对较高的成本，组织需要相信采用这些系统将改善运营。为了解决这一问题，本研究旨在通过一系列深入的比较研究，揭示LSD技术在各种任务和使用环境中可以提供的具体个人和协作优势。这些研究将LSD技术与特定应用领域（如军事和相关领域）的现有技术进行对比。

Technological advances have significantly increased the feasibility of interactive large-screen display (LSD) systems, such as interactive walls and tabletops. Commercial, interactive walls have been available for over ten years, with the Canadian-built, SMART BoardTM available in many North American schools and boardrooms. Commercial digital tabletops have only recently become available, most notably with the release of Microsoft's SurfaceTM and the SMART TableTM in 2007 and 2008, respectively. However, unlike smaller multi-touch devices, such as Apple's iPadTM, adoption of LSDs has been much slower. This slow adoption is, in part, due to a lack of empirical evidence demonstrating the specific benefits that LSD systems provide over existing technologies. Given the relatively high cost of LSD systems, organizations need to be confident that adopting these systems will improve operations. To address this issue, this research aims to uncover the specific individual and collaborative benefits LSD technologies can provide in various task and usage contexts through a series of in-depth comparison studies. These studies will contrast LSD technologies against existing technologies in specific application domains, such as military and related domains.