Supporting transitions in work: informing large display application design by understanding whiteboard use

Anthony Tang, Joel Lanir, Saul Greenberg, and Sidney Fels. (2009). Supporting transitions in work: informing large display application design by understanding whiteboard use. In GROUP ’09: Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work, ACM, 149–158.

Abstract

In this paper, we explore the practice of using a whiteboard for multiple tasks, and specifically how users employ whiteboards to smoothly transition between related sets of tasks. Our study underscores several basic, but important affordances of whiteboards that support this practice, including visual persistence, flexibility of interaction primitives, and their situated physicality. We discuss the implications of these findings for the design of large display applications.

Materials

PDF File (http://hcitang.org/papers/2009-group2009-transitions.pdf)
DOI (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1531674.1531697)

Keywords

Whiteboard, large display groupware, reflexive CSCW

BibTeX

@inproceedings{tang2009supporting,
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  author = {Tang, Anthony and Lanir, Joel and Greenberg, Saul and Fels, Sidney},
  booktitle = {GROUP '09: Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on
      Supporting group work},
  date-modified = {2014-01-17 04:52:20 +0000},
  doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1531674.1531697},
  isbn = {978-1-60558-500-0},
  keywords = {Whiteboard, large display groupware, reflexive CSCW},
  location = {Sanibel Island, Florida, USA},
  pages = {149--158},
  pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2009-group2009-transitions.pdf},
  publisher = {ACM},
  title = {Supporting transitions in work: informing large display application design
      by understanding whiteboard use},
  type = {conference},
  year = {2009},
  bdsk-url-1 = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1531674.1531697}
}