%K Application;; Challenging issue; Co-located; Co-located collaborative work; Collaborative multi-touch interaction; Collaborative Work; Enabling technologies; Multi-touch interactions; Multi-touch tabletop display; Multi-touch tabletops; Tabletop displays; Touch enabling technology, User interfaces %X Multi-touch tabletop displays provide a co-located collaborative workspace for multiple users around a physical table. They sit together and perform collaborative interaction to select and manipulate digital contents using their bare fingers. However, these systems bring a new paradigm shift in user interaction and present various challenges to design natural user interfaces respectively. The growing popularity of tabletop displays and their related issues have gained a greater attention among researchers in academia and industry. It creates a need to present an overview of multi-touch tabletop displays. This review paper attempts to present the touch enabling technologies that support in the construction of multi-touch tabletop displays. It also presents the important applications of multi-touch tabletop displays in different domains and their challenging issues in different perspectives. Finally, this paper proposes the future work. %O cited By 1 %L scholars6332 %J International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems %D 2015 %R 10.21307/ijssis-2017-791 %N 2 %T Applications of multi-touch tabletop displays and their challenging issues: An overview %I Massey University %V 8 %A Ahsanullah %A S. Sulaiman %A A.K.B. Mahmood %A M. Khan %A M. Madni %P 966-991