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Intel Senseboard
A sensing whiteboard that eases brainstorming with a paperless interface that accomodates remote users.

Who:

From Intel: Cynthia Pickering and Tom Gardos
From the Media Lab: Prof. Hiroshi Ishii and the Tangible Media group
When:

2003
Where:

MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Why:

Intel wanted a new, more efficent way for their technicians to brainstorm.

How:

Using a special whiteboard with a communications interface and JAVA-based interactive software.

Details

    Collaborators can physically move pucks on the surface of the whiteboard to manipulate information. Multiple people can move items simultaneously at the board, or remotely through a web browser.

    Intel rewrote the user interface code to allow multi-person interactions and real-time sessions between more than one whiteboard. They also added video capability, to more easily accomodate remote users.

    The system is more efficient than writing everything on pieces of paper, which then have to be retyped for future use. The Senseboard saves session information for future reference.

 

 

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