A taxonomy of multi-user co-located interaction environments

Oussama Mubarak (1, 2)

1 CEDRIC - Centre d'études et de recherche en informatique et communications
2 EnsadLab - EnsadLab

Designing interfaces for multiuser co-located interaction in the context of a leisure environment for the general public 1 involves many challenges. An important one deals with the visual identification and tracking of one's own actions on shared interfaces. To better design interfaces that promote and facilitate interaction in those environments, it is important to understand the relations between different aspects of such interfaces and the degree of difficulty of participants to visually identify and follow their own actions. In this article we propose a definition of co-located interaction and classify several reviewed and analyzed projects that fit that specific definition using five high-level characteristics: group size, activity type, I/O distribution, display simultaneity and user attribute.

Mots clés: co-located interaction; data visualization; visual identification

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Oussama Mubarak. A taxonomy of multi-user co-located interaction environments. 27ème conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, Oct 2015, Toulouse, France. ⟨hal-01561626⟩