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Effect of screen configuration and interaction devices in shared display groupware

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Andriy Pavlovych,

Wolfgang StuerzlingerAuthors Info & Claims

HCC '08: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Human-centered computing

Pages 49 - 56

https://doi.org/10.1145/1462027.1462035

Published: 31 October 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Interactive tabletop and wall surfaces support collaboration and interactivity in novel ways. Apart from keyboards and mice, such systems can also incorporate other input devices, namely laser pointers, marker pens with screen location sensors, or touch-sensitive surfaces. Similarly, instead of a vertically positioned desktop monitor, collaborative setups typically use much larger displays, which are oriented either vertically (wall) or horizontally (tabletop), or combine both kinds of surfaces.

In this paper we describe an empirical study that investigates how technical system constraints can affect group performance in high pace collaborative tasks. For this, we compare various input and output modalities in a system that consists of several interactive tabletop and wall surface(s). We observed that the performance of a group of people scaled almost linearly with the number of participants on an almost perfectly parallel task. We also found that mice were significantly faster than laser pointers, but only by 21%. Also, interaction on walls was significantly faster than on the tabletop, by 51%.

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Index Terms

Effect of screen configuration and interaction devices in shared display groupware
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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HCC '08: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Human-centered computing

October 2008

84 pages

ISBN:9781605583204

DOI:10.1145/1462027

General Chairs:
Alejandro Jaimes
Telefonica Research, Spain
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Daniela Nicklas
University of Oldenburg, Germany
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Nicu Sebe
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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