[3] The DiamondTouch table is used to facilitate face-to-face collaboration, brainstorming, and decision-making, and users include construction management company Parsons Brinckerhoff,[4] the Methodist Hospital,[5] and the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).

[7] The DiamondTouch hardware enables a class of software known as "single-display groupware"[8] where collaborative work is supported by computer interfaces that allow participants to be physically close.

[13] The physical set-up of the system consists of the DiamondTouch device connected to a PC via USB cable, and a video projector suspended above the table and aimed down onto the touch surface.

A multi-user annotation software tool allows users to make mark-ups, selecting pen types from a pallet.

DiamondTouch first appeared publicly at a cocktail reception at the 2004 Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference[17] and soon after that at the first NextFest sponsored by Wired Magazine.