Shared discovery using a library tool on an interactive tabletop: Team composition, collaboration style and process

Tang, Rong; Quigley, Elizabeth; Guillette, Jeremy; Erdmann, Christopher

doi:10.1002/meet.14505001054

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“…In another paper (Tang, Quigley, Guillette, & Erdmann, 2013), we reported the impact of collaboration style on collaboration quality and team effectiveness, this paper focuses on the effect of dyadic diversity. One of the major limitations of the present study is that in both pre and post session interviews, no specific inquiries were made regarding participants' past experience and how they feel about the quality of the collaboration when they used the SUR40 and LE.…”

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The Effect of Undergraduate Library Users' Dyadic Diversity Attributes on Interactive Tabletop Collaboration, Performance, and Perception

Tang¹,

Quigley²

2014

iConference 2014 Proceedings

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Sixty undergraduate students were paired up and participated in a usability study of the Library Explorer software on a Microsoft PixelSense Tabletop. Specific investigation into the impact of diversity attributes on collaboration style, collaboration quality, task performance, and participants' perception revealed interesting patterns. Problem solving ideas were coded as suggestions. Gender composition and task performance were found to be significantly associated with the frequency of suggestions' non-acceptance. Results show that during participants' collaborative discovery on interactive tabletops, gender and racial diversities, while directly influenced their collaboration styles and processes, did not impact their team performance. Diversity attributes that significantly correlated with team effectiveness included native language diversity, differences in tabletop use experiences, usability ratings, and the frequency of suggestions not being accepted. Findings of the study not only enrich the understanding of the connection between team compositional diversity and collaboration styles, but also provide insights on how team members' suggestion behaviors may help capture the dynamics of collaboration on interactive tabletops.

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The Effect of Undergraduate Library Users' Dyadic Diversity Attributes on Interactive Tabletop Collaboration, Performance, and Perception

Tang¹,

Quigley²

2014

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Collaboration around Multi-touch Spherical Displays: A Field Study at a Science Museum

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Tierney

Jurczyk

et al. 2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Multi-touch spherical displays that enable groups of people to collaboratively interact are increasingly being used in informal learning settings such as museums. Prior research on large flatscreen displays has examined group collaboration patterns in museum settings to inform the design of group learning experiences around these displays. However, previous research has shown differences in how users conceptualize interacting with spherical and flatscreen displays, thereby making it important to separately investigate how groups naturally collaborate around spherical displays in a museum setting. The spherical form factor of the display affords new forms of collaboration: unlike flatscreen displays, spherical displays do not have a definite front or center, thus intrinsically creating both shared and private touch interaction areas on the display based on users' viewing angles or physical arrangements. We conducted a 5-day long field study at a local science museum during which 571 visitors (370 adults and 201 children) in 211 groups interacted with a walk-up-and-use collaborative learning application showing global science data visualizations, on a multi-touch spherical display. We qualitatively analyzed groups' natural collaboration patterns including their physical arrangements (F-formations), their collaboration profiles (e.g., turn-taker or independent), and the nature of group discussion around the display. Our results show that groups often engaged in both independent as well as closely collaborative group explorations when interacting around the sphere: physical spacing between group members around the sphere was strongly linked to the way groups collaborated. It was less common for group members to make and accept suggestions or coordinate touch interactions when they did not share the same fields-of-view or touch interaction space with each other around the sphere. We discuss implications for supporting group collaboration in this context which will inform the design of future walk-up-and-use multi-touch spherical display applications for use in public settings.

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Shared discovery using a library tool on an interactive tabletop: Team composition, collaboration style and process

Cited by 2 publications

References 13 publications

The Effect of Undergraduate Library Users' Dyadic Diversity Attributes on Interactive Tabletop Collaboration, Performance, and Perception

The Effect of Undergraduate Library Users' Dyadic Diversity Attributes on Interactive Tabletop Collaboration, Performance, and Perception

Collaboration around Multi-touch Spherical Displays: A Field Study at a Science Museum

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