Collaborative coupling over tabletop displays

Tang, A., Tory, M., Po, B., Neumann, P., and Carpendale, S. (2006). Collaborative coupling over tabletop displays. In CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1181--1190.

Abstract

Designing collaborative interfaces for tabletops remains difficult because we do not fully understand how groups coordinate their actions when working collaboratively over tables. We present two observational studies of pairs completing independent and shared tasks that investigate collaborative coupling, or the manner in which collaborators are involved and occupied with each other's work. Our results indicate that individuals frequently and fluidly engage and disengage with group activity through several distinct, recognizable states with unique characteristics. We describe these states and explore the consequences of these states for tabletop interface design.

Materials

PDF File (http://hcitang.org/papers/2006-chi2006-collaborative-coupling.pdf)
DOI (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124772.1124950)

Keywords

Collaborative tabletop displays, single display groupware, mixed focus collaboration, coordination, coupling

BibTeX

@inproceedings{tang2006collaborative,
  year = {2006},
  type = {conference},
  title = {Collaborative coupling over tabletop displays},
  publisher = {ACM},
  pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2006-chi2006-collaborative-coupling.pdf},
  pages = {1181--1190},
  location = {Montréal, Québec, Canada},
  keywords = {Collaborative tabletop displays, single display groupware, mixed focus
collaboration, coordination, coupling},
  isbn = {1-59593-372-7},
  doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124772.1124950},
  date-modified = {2014-01-17 05:11:23 +0000},
  booktitle = {CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems},
  author = {Tang, Anthony and Tory, Melanie and Po, Barry and Neumann, Petra and
Carpendale, Sheelagh},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  abstract = {Designing collaborative interfaces for tabletops remains difficult
because we do not fully understand how groups coordinate their actions when
working collaboratively over tables. We present two observational studies of
pairs completing independent and shared tasks that investigate collaborative
coupling, or the manner in which collaborators are involved and occupied with
each other's work. Our results indicate that individuals frequently and fluidly
engage and disengage with group activity through several distinct, recognizable
states with unique characteristics. We describe these states and explore the
consequences of these states for tabletop interface design.},
}