UBC Computer Science Kellogg Booth Professor and His Team Receive 2016 ACM ISS Honourable Mention

UBC Computer Science Professor Kellogg Booth, former post-doc Dr. Narges Mahyar, former Computer Science students Cathy Meng and Ernest Xiang, and colleagues in SLAIS and SALA, won an honourable mention for their paper "UD Co-Spaces: A Table-Centred Multi-Display Environment for Public Engagement in Urban Design Charrettes” at this year's ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS 2016) conference.

The paper describes the design and evaluation of a system to support the charrette process for urban design. The system is a multi-touch tabletop application for neighbourhood planning that is integrated with large wall displays and hand-held personal displays. A series of studies in real-world planning workshops and in laboratory settings examined the degree to which multi-display environments can engage a broad range of stakeholders in decision making and foster collaboration and co-creation.

The research was conducted under funding from an NSERC strategic project grant “IDEAS2.0: Integrative Data-Enabled Approaches to Sustainability across Scales”.