Displaying and operating methods for a table-shaped information terminal

To enable respective operators to surely acquire shared information necessary for conversation etc., when discrete information screens are displayed for each operator on the same table surface. A display surface is installed within a table (2) in such a manner that the display surface exists as if on a table surface and the screen by the display surface, i.e., the shared information screen (6) and the discrete information screens (7and 8) are displayed. The discrete information screens (7 and 8) are respectively used by the operators (11 and 12) and the discrete information of the operators (11 and 12) is respectively displayed for each operator. The information permitted to be commonly viewed by the operators (11 and 12) with each other among the discrete information displayed on the discrete information screens (7 and 8) can be displayed as the shared information on the shared screen (6) by the prescribed operation at the respectively discrete information screens (7 and 8). The respective discrete informati