Multi-User Painting on Media Facades through Live-Video on Mobile Devices

Media facades in urban spaces offer great potential for new forms of collaborative multi-user interaction. We present a way to directly interact with facades at-a- distance through live video on mobile devices. We ex- tend the Touch Projector interface to accommodate multiple users by showing individual content on the mobile display that would otherwise clutter the facade's canvas or distract other users. To demonstrate our con- cept, we built an application that allows for simultane- ous painting on a facade. We gathered informal feed- back during the ARS Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria and found that our interaction technique is (1) consid- ered easy-to-learn, but (2) may leave users unaware of the actions of others on the same canvas.