Territory-Based Interaction Techniques for Tabletop Collaboration Export

@misc{citeulike:3430512, abstract = {For over hundreds of years people have been gathering around tables for the purposes of eating, conversing, working, and entertaining. Co-located collaboration researchers exploring alternatives to traditional ” desktop” computers are beginning to exploit the benefits that this familiar environment appears to have for facilitating social interactions. Studies of tabletop collaboration involving traditional media (e.g., paper and pens) show collaborators often partition the tabletop workspace into various areas (e.g., personal and group). Just as partitioning of our physical spaces helps to maintain social order, such territorial behaviour on a tabletop workspace appears to be an important mechanism for organizing collaborative activities. This research further investigates tabletop territoriality, through new observational studies, as well as development of territory-based interaction techniques for tabletop collaboration. Initial results from these observational studies are presented, along with a proposed test-bed environment for exploring territory-based interaction techniques.}, citeulike-article-id = {3430512}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.539}, keywords = {co-located, collaboration, cscw, display, interaction, tabletop, technique, territoriality}, posted-at = {2008-10-20 12:01:21}, priority = {2}, title = {Territory-Based Interaction Techniques for Tabletop Collaboration}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.539} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:3430512 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3430512 N2 - For over hundreds of years people have been gathering around tables for the purposes of eating, conversing, working, and entertaining. Co-located collaboration researchers exploring alternatives to traditional “desktop” computers are beginning to exploit the benefits that this familiar environment appears to have for facilitating social interactions. Studies of tabletop collaboration involving traditional media (e.g., paper and pens) show collaborators often partition the tabletop workspace into various areas (e.g., personal and group). Just as partitioning of our physical spaces helps to maintain social order, such territorial behaviour on a tabletop workspace appears to be an important mechanism for organizing collaborative activities. This research further investigates tabletop territoriality, through new observational studies, as well as development of territory-based interaction techniques for tabletop collaboration. Initial results from these observational studies are presented, along with a proposed test-bed environment for exploring territory-based interaction techniques. TI - Territory-Based Interaction Techniques for Tabletop Collaboration KW - co-located KW - collaboration KW - cscw KW - display KW - interaction KW - tabletop KW - technique KW - territoriality UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.539 ER -