Traces in creative spaces

We organized one-week 'IncompanyLabs' (i.e. on site co-design activities) at three different creative companies, seeking opportunities for an embodied interactive media tool to support creative sessions. Our concept TRACES is an interactive floor guiding the creation of shared insights and supporting taking the step from individual thinking to group-level integration. User explorations with a Wizard-of-Oz prototype revealed directions for improving the interaction quality and indicated how a system like TRACES could act as a 'scaffold' for discussion