Got Multiple Devices and Displays?

Mary Czerwinski and Panelists Principal Researcher VIBE Microsoft Research

Research Questions

How do you get a bunch of devices in a room, add people and large displays, and really make it work?

What do we really know about how multiple iworkers or consumers will work effectively integrating all of these technologies? (Hint: it may be less than you think!) And, what new tasks and activities do multiple device ecologies support well?

Renowned Panelists:

• François Guimbretière, University of Maryland • George Robertson, MSR • Andy Wilson, MSR • Beth Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology

Overview

What We Know Now (Mary) “The Box” (George) Paper and Digital: Better Together (Francois) Surface Computing (Andy) Display Ecologies (Beth)

What We Know Now

There are many issues with multiple users and large displays Moving information around Selecting information without disrupting multiple users Sharing v. privacy issues Physical v. virtual display spaces for content Supporting shared contextual awareness Supporting social proxemics and protocols …

Moving Information Around…

What to do when you have your information spread out in physically large display surfaces?

Real display at Georgia Tech (Hutchings et al.)

WinCuts: Initial Motivation

Problems: Sharing live windows/information is hard Screen space is scarce and laying out information optimally is hard

We Were Thinking…

With remote input redirection working: Ad hoc remote controls and interfaces Work across displays and devices Cell Phone Laptop or TabletPC Desktop PDA

Selecting Information w/o Disrupting

We still haven’t built an electronic whiteboard that supports collaboration Best was PARC’s LiveBoard Multiple inputs doing real world tasks

Sharing v. Privacy

George will discuss this some with “The Box” We know from studies that if you put your personal information on a large display, co-located users will consume it!

“You put it there, you must have wanted me to read it.” We need designs that account for the fact that others might be present in social contexts

Interaction Based On Distance

Vogel & Balakrishnan’s notion of an interactive, ambient, public display Different functionality based on distance Ambient, Implicit, Subtle and Personal spaces

Physical v. Virtual Spaces Problem: users have multiple desktops wall of monitors how to switch focus?

might be using a phone or remote control Solution: TaskZones

Supporting Shared Contextual Awareness

Status: Online, Active Keywords: Status Report, EOM spreadsheet Status: SIGIR, Mobile Keywords: Faceted search, UI Status: IDG Meeting, Mobile Keywords: Design review, OEM Report Status: DND Keywords: Bug ID 4352

Social Proxemics and Protocols

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Ringel Morris et al.’s work on tabletops

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Gender differences

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