Abstract
As consumer digital media technologies evolve, there is a need for new kinds of platforms that support sociable interactions to manage and display our ever larger personal media content archives. While today's desktop PCs provide a range of applications for media management and sharing, their interfaces force a separation between digital interactions with stored media content, and the physical "daily living" spaces of our everyday lives. This generally precludes the casual face-to-face interactions that have traditionally emerged during the browsing of physical media artifacts such as family photo albums.

In this paper we present two applications for managing and browsing personal media collections on the TViews table, an interactive tabletop display platform that supports multi-user interactions through real-time tracking of tagged objects. The TViews table is designed for everyday environments and supports casual and sociable interactions around media collections, thus removing the separation between physical and digital interaction spaces in the home.

IEEE Multimedia, Special Issue on Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences, 2006.
http://mf.media.mit.edu/pubs/journal/SharingBrowsing.pdf