Exploring spatially-aware cross-device interaction techniques for mobile collaborative sensemaking. Issue 122 (February 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Desolda, Giuseppe; Ardito, Carmelo; Jetter, Hans-Christian; Lanzilotti, Rosa
• Is Part Of: International journal of human-computer studies. Issue 122(2019)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 20
• Publication Date: 2019-02
• Subjects: Spatially-aware devices -- Interaction Paradigm -- User studies; Human-machine systems -- Periodicals; Systems engineering -- Periodicals; Human engineering -- Periodicals; Human engineering; Human-machine systems; Systems engineering; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 004.019
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2018.08.006
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1071-5819

Abstract

Highlights: Spatial-aware mobile devices for collaborative sensemaking. Human-centered design process of spatial-aware cross-device mobile interaction techniques. Design indications to create spatial-aware cross-device interaction techniques. Abstract: The collaborative decision-making process is traditionally supported by multi-user interfaces, such as large multi-touch screens or interactive tabletops for accessing, relating and comparing different data sources. Since such multi-user interfaces are typically expensive and unavailable outside dedicated environments (e.g. labs, smart rooms), recent works have proposed "bring your own device" approaches that allow users to join their mobile devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets) in an ad-hoc manner to temporarily create multi-user cross-device systems. Such approaches can be enabled by spatially-aware cross-device interactions that have only been explored for simple operations. We conducted a three-step research study involving a total number of 65 users in 18 groups, in order to propose a composition paradigm that offers three interaction techniques for performing more complex operations, such as forwarding to multiple devices queries or query results or aggregating and visualizing search results across device boundaries.