Designing environments for collaborative video editing

Video capture has become very easy and happens spontaneously with current mobile phones, but the resulting clips are never edited, mostly because this would imply a different physical and social context. We present the design of an interactive tabletop application for collaborative video editing, which aims at preserving this spontaneous attitude and the spirit of sharing. It uses fluent and two-handed interactions, as well as physical interface objects. The prototype we built was evaluated in a focus group of teenagers, which confirmed many of our design decisions, but also raised new questions.