A Life-Sized Desk Display for Peripheral Awareness and Remote Collaboration

We present a horizontal life-sized desk display called the Escritoire. It fills a much larger visual angle than a conventional monitor, and thus exploits the user’s peripheral vision. Two-handed input over the extent of the user’s reach allows a style of working more like a real desk, and, using two desks, participants in a video conference can share a virtual space for remote collaboration.