Got Multiple Devices and Displays? 5/27/2018 1:13 AM Got Multiple Devices and Displays? Mary Czerwinski and Panelists Principal Researcher VIBE Microsoft Research

5/27/2018 1:13 AM 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? 

Renowned Panelists: François Guimbretière, University of Maryland 5/27/2018 1:13 AM Renowned Panelists: François Guimbretière, University of Maryland George Robertson, MSR Andy Wilson, MSR Beth Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology

Overview What We Know Now (Mary) “The Box” (George) 5/27/2018 1:13 AM Overview What We Know Now (Mary) “The Box” (George) Paper and Digital: Better Together (Francois) Surface Computing (Andy) Display Ecologies (Beth)

5/27/2018 1:13 AM 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 …

Moving Information Around… 5/27/2018 1:13 AM 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.)

WinCuts: Initial Motivation 5/27/2018 1:13 AM WinCuts: Initial Motivation Problems: Sharing live windows/information is hard Screen space is scarce and laying out information optimally is hard

We Were Thinking… With remote input redirection working: 5/27/2018 1:13 AM 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

Selecting Information w/o Disrupting 5/27/2018 1:13 AM 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 

Sharing v. Privacy George will discuss this some with “The Box” 5/27/2018 1:13 AM 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 the fact that others might be present in social contexts

Interaction Based On Distance 5/27/2018 1:13 AM 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

Physical v. Virtual Spaces 5/27/2018 1:13 AM 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

Supporting Shared Contextual Awareness 5/27/2018 1:13 AM 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

Social Proxemics and Protocols 5/27/2018 1:13 AM Social Proxemics and Protocols Ringel-Morris et al.’s work on tabletops Gender differences

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