How an Interactive Table can Influence Your Designs (Video)

What was once a simple table can now be transformed into an interactive, multi-tasking, mutli-media “feature” that can redefine the way you would typically think of a particular space — thus, able to change some conventions.

Eating with your family in a restaurant or shopping at your favorite store can become not only more interactive, but also, highly customized.

In the following video, you will see such an “interactive table” used for a multitude of functions — which are really only limited only by your own imagination. Just imagine if surfaces, like the one you see in the video below, could be positioned vertically or horizontally anywhere in a building.

Think of how this could augment an architectural space. What possibilities do you see?

WHAT’S YOUR DESIGN INTENTION?

Applied vertically or horizontally, such an interactive installation can become a type of anchor for a space — not necessarily the central core, but possibly a focal point.

Perhaps, such “interactive tables” will also encourage your occupants to interact with each other differently — maybe more, maybe less. Parts of your design will gain greater ability to “behave” with occupants, while others will remain static, with a “behavior” all their own.

Ultimately, this may well depend on your own design intention.

SPARK NEW KINDS OF COMMUNICATION

The beauty is that these types of advancements encourage you, the designer, to think about interaction differently. Your occupant will communicate with your design in renewed ways — physically, intellectually, emotionally and behaviorally — if design properly.

Yes, as an architect, you can orchestrate the placement of such “interactive behaviors”, but you must explore the impact of bringing such “digital interactions” into physical and social environments.

The key will be to spark new kinds of communication for your occupant — with themselves, with each other, with their task at hand and with their surroundings. By doing this, you will provide your occupants with renewed contexts to help them do what they want to do…even better.

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