The IUI2007 Conference will feature the Tangible Play Workshop: “Research and Design for Tangible and Tabletop Games”. This is very interesting, also because the conference venue is at the Hawaii, but right now i’m too busy working on tabulaTouch (yes, i know there haven’t been news for quite a long time.. but we are working a lot).
I hope to hear/read something about the workshop, Philips will be talking about tabletop games from an industry perspective, and this is the right time (where is MERL heading with DiamondTouch?).

In my view, games are the optimal ice-breaker for tabletop technologies, even if the real advantage of a clever interaction design on tables has to be found in other, more business-related, markets..

Instead, i will be attending a workshop in january at the CSCL Alpine Rendez-Vous called “The Classroom of the Future” where we will be investigating roomware and tabletop applied to learning, see you there.