APDT: An agile planning tool for digital tabletops

Abstract

This paper presents Agile Planner for Digital Tabletops (APDT) as a tool that facilitates agile planning meetings using large horizontal displays. Utilizing APDT on a reasonably sized digital tabletop allows collaborators to create, edit, move, rotate, toss and delete index cards just like they would do with paper artifacts. APDT provides a multimodal input system that supports gesture-, handwriting- and speech recognition as alternative input methodologies to conventional mouse and keyboard input. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008.