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April 15, 2007
Lit Review - Social Aspects of Using Large Public Interactive Displays for Collaboration
Social Aspects of Using Large Public Interactive Displays for Collaboration (Russell, Drews et al. 2002)This paper describes a short (110 minute) field study of the Blueboard display. The Blueboard display is a semi-public display built on top of a SmartBoard rear projection touch screen display. Users could identify themselves to BlueBoard using issued RFID tag badges. When a user swipes their badge the display will bring up their personal homepage, and also allow them to interact with the display, either by browsing web-pages, or using the display as a touch screen driven digital whiteboard. The SmartBoard touch screen had the limitation of only supporting one point of contact at a time, thus, the collaborative aspects of the system were normally governed by one user managing the display a time. Similar to other public display studies they found that users experienced ‘social learning through exposed interaction’. They also noted some of the social dynamics surrounding the display such as turn-taking, and the creation of interaction norms surrounding the use of the display. In addition to group level observations, the researchers also noted a few single user observations, for example, few users badged out of the system if they did not have a rich interaction, drawing is important – whiteboards are useful, text input might be necessary, and a few more antidotal observations. In short, this paper sheds little light upon the use of collaborative displays over time, and details some of the limitations of existing collaborative technologies (such as single touch – touch screens), however, the primary contribution of this paper is not in the evaluation, but in the actual Blueboard collaborative system.
Russell, D. M., C. Drews and A. Sue (2002). Social Aspects of Using Large Public Interactive Displays for Collaboration. Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing. G\öteborg, Sweden, Springer-Verlag.
This paper doesn’t really provide very much insight into the social aspects of using a large screen display for collaboration, and seems somewhat of a misnomer.
Posted by bcx at April 15, 2007 06:30 PM