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

Anthony Tang, Joel Lanir, Saul Greenberg, Sidney Fels

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGROUP'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work
Pages149-158
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP'09 - Sanibel Island, FL, United States
Duration: 10 May 200913 May 2009

Publication series

NameGROUP'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work

Conference

Conference2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP'09
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanibel Island, FL
Period10/05/0913/05/09

Keywords

  • Large display groupware
  • Reflexive cscw
  • Whiteboard

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science

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