Avoiding interference through translucent interface components in single display groupware

Zanella, Ana Karla Batista Bezerra; Greenberg, Saul

doi:10.1145/634288.634289

CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computer Systems - CHI '01 2001

DOI: 10.1145/634288.634289

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Avoiding interference through translucent interface components in single display groupware

Ana Karla Batista Bezerra Zanella

Saul Greenberg

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“…Special fonts customized for transparent situations can be used instead[Harrison et al, 1995[Harrison et al, , 1996, but these were not necessary in our particular situation. 4 A brief description and preliminary analysis of the study was reported inZanella and Greenberg [2001].…”

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Reducing Interference in Single Display Groupware through Transparency

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Single Display Groupware (SDG) supports face-to-face collaborators working over a single shared display, where all people have their own input device. Although SDG is simple in concept, there are surprisingly many problems in how interactions within SDG are managed. One problem is the potential for interference, where one person can raise an interface component (such as a menu or dialog box) in a way that hinders what another person is doing i.e., by obscuring another person's working area that happens to be underneath the raised component. We propose transparent interface components as one possible solution to interference: while one person can raise and interact with the component, others can see through it and can continue to work underneath it. To test this concept, we first implemented a simple SDG game using both opaque and transparent SDG menus. Through a controlled experiment, we then analysed how interference affects peoples' performance across an opaque and transparent menu condition: a solo condition (where a person played alone) acts as our control. Our results show that the transparent menu did lessen the effect of interference, and that SDG players overwhelmingly preferred it to opaque menus.

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