Awareness Techniques to Aid Transitions between Personal and Shared Workspaces in Multi-Display Environments

Arnaud Prouzeau (1, 2) , Anastasia Bezerianos (1, 3) , Olivier Chapuis (3, 1)

1 LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
2 Faculty of Information Technology
3 ILDA - Interacting with Large Data

In multi-display environments (MDEs) that include large shared displays and desktops, users can engage in both close collaboration and parallel or personal work. To transition between the displays can be challenging in complex settings, such as crisis management rooms. To provide workspace awareness and to factilitate these transitions, we design and implement three interactions techniques that display users' activities. We explore how and where to display this activity: briefly on the shared display, or more persistently on a peripheral floor display. In a user study, motivated by the context of a crisis room where multiple operators with different roles need to cooperate, we tested the usability of the techniques and provided insights on such transitions in systems running on MDEs.

Keywords: Multi-Display Groupware; crisis management; workspace awareness; wall displays

Domains: Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]

Arnaud Prouzeau, Anastasia Bezerianos, Olivier Chapuis. Awareness Techniques to Aid Transitions between Personal and Shared Workspaces in Multi-Display Environments. Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces, Nov 2018, Tokyo, Japan. pp.291--304, ⟨10.1145/3279778.3279780⟩. ⟨hal-01890787v2⟩