The State of the Empire in Tabletop Technology Master Thesis

In this paper we are reviewing the literature of tabletop technologies. This paper contributes to the current body of literature within tabletop technology research by first positioning 238 papers, from leading conferences on tabletop technologies such as IEEE Tabletop, ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS) and ACM Conference on Computer-human Interaction (CHI), in 8 different categories, based on the research purpose and focus on the paper. Secondly this paper identifies an overview of the current types of tabletop technologies that is used in research. The aim of the categories is for researchers to easily identify research opportunities and identify the current trends of tabletop technologies. We discuss areas within tabletop technologies that are research opportunities e.g. the use of tabletop for collaborative purposes and group interaction.