Got Multiple Devices and Displays?

1. Got Multiple Devices and Displays? Mary Czerwinski and Panelists Principal Researcher VIBE Microsoft Research

2. 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? 

3. Renowned Panelists: • François Guimbretière, University of Maryland • George Robertson, MSR • Andy Wilson, MSR • Beth Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology

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

5. 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 • …

6. 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.)

7. WinCuts: Initial Motivation • Problems: • Sharing live windows/information is hard • Screen space is scarce and laying out information optimally is hard

8. 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

9. 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 

10. 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 thefact that others might be present insocial contexts

11. 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

12. 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

13. Supporting Shared Contextual Awareness Status: SIGIR, Mobile Keywords: Faceted search, UI Status: Online, Active Keywords: Status Report, EOM spreadsheet Status: DND Keywords: Bug ID 4352 Status: IDG Meeting, Mobile Keywords: Design review, OEM Report

14. Social Proxemics and Protocols • Ringel-Morris et al.’s work on tabletops • Gender differences

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