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Google Tables are interactive table-top screens used in Google’s Cafes. These large interactive surfaces provides a place for groups to momentarily congregate on their way into and out of the new YouGrow cafe, a hub of glowing color, filled with rich visual information, driven an engaging natural user interface.The over-arching objective was to utilize the rich visual and informative content provided by Bon Appétit in an experience that will encourage users to make better choices about the food they eat.
Scalio played a major role in the design and development on the project. The tables use physical subject cards that when placed on the table surface, trigger a menu of options, each element containing related information. This ‘hub-and-spoke’ style interface groups information into helpful categories, and can be switched on and off simply by placing a card on or off the display.The physical interface also enables the creation of visual connections between different categories, producing a web of relationships, as lines also connect one card with another. Content for the tables are delivered by a custom CMS, and updated by a designated content manager as and when new material needs to appear.