Rethinking 'Multi-user': An in-the-wild study of how groups approach a walk-up-and-use tabletop interface

Paul Marshall; Richard Morris; Yvonne Rogers; Stefan Kreitmayer; Matt Davies

doi:10.1145/1978942.1979392

Rethinking 'Multi-user': An in-the-wild study of how groups approach a walk-up-and-use tabletop interface

Paul Marshall^*, Richard Morris, Yvonne Rogers, Stefan Kreitmayer, Matt Davies

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Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Multi-touch tabletops have been much heralded as an innovative technology that can facilitate new ways of group working. However, there is little evidence of these materialising outside of research lab settings. We present the findings of a 5-week in-the-wild study examining how a shared planning application - designed to run on a walk-up-and-use tabletop - was used when placed in a tourist information centre. We describe how groups approached, congregated and interacted with it and the social interactions that took place - noting how they were quite different from research findings describing the ways groups work around a tabletop in lab settings. We discuss the implications of such situated group work for designing collaborative tabletop applications for use in public settings.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts
Pages	3033-3042
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979392
Publication status	Published - 13 Jun 2011
Event	29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011: Connecting - Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: 7 May 2011 → 12 May 2011 Conference number: 29 http://www.chi2011.org/

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Conference	29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011
Abbreviated title	CHI 2011
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver, BC
Period	7/05/11 → 12/05/11
Other	The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of human-computer interaction. CHI 2011 focuses on leveraging our diversity and connecting people, cultures, technologies, experiences, and ideas.
Internet address	http://www.chi2011.org/

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Bristol Interaction Group

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In situ
In-the-wild
Public
Tabletop
Walk-up-and-use

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Marshall, P, Morris, R, Rogers, Y, Kreitmayer, S & Davies, M 2011, Rethinking 'Multi-user': An in-the-wild study of how groups approach a walk-up-and-use tabletop interface. in CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts. pp. 3033-3042, 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 7/05/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979392

Rethinking 'Multi-user': An in-the-wild study of how groups approach a walk-up-and-use tabletop interface. / Marshall, Paul; Morris, Richard; Rogers, Yvonne et al.
CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts. 2011. p. 3033-3042.

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