TableTops: Worthwhile Experiences of Collocated and Remote Collaboration

Pauchet, Alexandre; Coldefy, F.; Lefebvre, Liv; Picard, Stéphane Louis Dit; Perron, Laurence; Bouguet, Arnaud; Collobert, M.; Guérin, Jean‐Luc; Corvaisier, D.

doi:10.1109/tabletop.2007.13

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“…Lately there has been growing interest in systems connecting two geographically-separated tabletop interfaces together to support remote collaboration [1,8,9,14,18,23]. These remote tabletop interfaces typically provide a large horizontal shared workspace in which remote collaborators see each other's interactions with virtual task artefacts, such as digital photos, documents, or sketches, along with remote "shadow" representations of the arms at the remote site.…”

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Territorial coordination and workspace awareness in remote tabletop collaboration

Tuddenham

Robinson

2009

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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There is growing interest in tabletop interfaces that enable remote collaboration by providing shared workspaces. This approach assumes that these remote tabletops afford the same beneficial work practices as co-located tabletop interfaces and traditional tables. This assumption has not been tested in practice. We explore two such work practices in remote tabletop collaboration: (a) coordination by territorial partitioning of space; and (b) transitioning between individual and group work within a shared task. We have evaluated co-located and remote tabletop collaboration. We found that remote collaborators did not coordinate territorially as co-located collaborators did. We found no differences between remote and co-located interfaces in their ability to afford individual and group work. However, certain interaction techniques impaired the ability to transition fluidly between these working styles. We discuss causes and the implications for the design and future study of these interfaces.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Territorial coordination and workspace awareness in remote tabletop collaboration

Tuddenham

Robinson

2009

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Therefore, the selection time becomes difficult to compare between the devices and we concentrate on the manipulation of the artefact based on drag actions. It should be noted that the recorded drag actions are self-paced, as in [8,13], rather than stimulus driven as in experiments, such as [9]. For our analysis, we generated the two measures, drag time and drag distance, from the interaction data.…”

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“…We consider now an environment, where two spatially distributed setting as used in our study form a shared workspace. This would lead to a similar environment as used in [23,13] but without the rich remote action embodiments such as arm shadow [24]. The temporally longer drag actions in this distributed collaboration scenario could facilitate the communication and coordination better than touch.…”

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Investigating Temporal-Spatial Characteristics of Mouse and Touch Input

Müller‐Tomfelde

2009

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2009

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Abstract. This paper explores differences between user actions employing mouse and touch input devices when performing a collaborative task on a tabletop interface. We explore temporal and spatial characteristics of drag actions of users through mouse (indirect) and touch input (direct) devices. Our analysis is based on system-logged interaction data we collected in an exploratory study. The analysis reveals that touch users performed more drag actions than mouse users. Furthermore, touch users dragged artefacts on a tabletop for a shorter period of time than mouse users. At the same time, touch users dragged objects in the workspace shorter distances than mouse users. We also identify differences based on the temporal-spatial histograms of the drag actions. We discuss our findings based on observations we made during the collaborative task and interviews with participants after the study. The results may be related to the performed task and to ergonomic design issues of the setup. We describe the possible implications on co-located and remote collaboration.

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“…Augmenting videoconferencing systems with multi-touch interaction allows multiple learners to interact simultaneously over a tangible shared space, to maintain verbal communication, and to share non-verbal cues through an additional visual link [16]. This offers new possibilities and scenarios for remote collaborative environments and collaborative learning.…”

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Remote Collaborative Multi-user Informal Learning Experiences: Design and Evaluation

Arroyo

Righi

Tarrago

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Towards Ubiquitous Learning

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Abstract. This paper presents a customizable system used to develop a collaborative multi-user problem solving game. It addresses the increasing demand for appealing informal learning experiences in museum-like settings. The system facilitates remote collaboration by allowing groups of learners to communicate through a videoconferencing system and by allowing them to simultaneously interact through a shared multi-touch interactive surface. A user study with 20 user groups indicates that the game facilitates collaboration between local and remote groups of learners. The videoconference and multitouch surface acted as communication channels, attracted students' interest, facilitated engagement, and promoted inter-and intra-group collaborationfavoring intra-group collaboration. Our findings suggest that augmenting videoconferencing systems with a shared multitouch space offers new possibilities and scenarios for remote collaborative environments and collaborative learning.

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TableTops: Worthwhile Experiences of Collocated and Remote Collaboration

Cited by 15 publications

References 13 publications

Territorial coordination and workspace awareness in remote tabletop collaboration

Territorial coordination and workspace awareness in remote tabletop collaboration

Investigating Temporal-Spatial Characteristics of Mouse and Touch Input

Remote Collaborative Multi-user Informal Learning Experiences: Design and Evaluation

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