INVESTIGATION OF COLLABORATIVE INTERACTION USING INTERACTIVE TABLE-BASED SETTING VERSUS COMPUTER-BASED SETTING

Nowadays technologies are available in classroom for teaching and learning. Desktop
computer offers multimedia resources that support student’s learning in their
academic activity. However, this technology does not effectively support
collaborative activity while using a single computer. Recent technologies of
interactive whiteboard (IWB) or tabletop have overcome this problem. A big
interactive screen with multimedia resources offers collaborative interaction which
allows the users to control applications by directly touching on the screen. In vice
versa, while using desktop computer, mouse need to be used by scrolling on flat
surface to control cursor which is not interactive. Even thought IWB or tabletop has
multi functions to support collaborative activity, the main problem is too expensive
and can not be afforded by budget schools. Therefore, the aim of this research study is
to propose a new design of low-cost interactive table (ITB) and IR devices. At the
same time evaluate effectiveness of ITB and IR devices. ITB provides a big
interactive screen which has ability to support any multimedia applications which
controlling by cursor.