Automatic vs. manual multi-display configuration: a study of user performance in a semi-cooperative task setting

Authors:
Thomas Heider;Thomas Kirste
Affiliations:
Rostock University, Germany;Rostock University, Germany
Venue:
BCS-HCI '07 Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: HCI...but not as we know it - Volume 2
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Emerging multi-display infrastructures provide users with a large number of (semi-) public and private displays. Selecting what information to present on which display here becomes a real issue, especially when multiple users with diverging interests have to be considered. This especially holds for dynamic ensembles of displays. Therefore, automatic assignment strategies might be useful, if they are able to provide the required assignment precision. We claim that it is possible to define such strategies, and show that it is able to assist users in solving specific tasks in multi-display environments at least as effectively as conventional manual assignment. Our claims are based on user performance data collected in the scope of a comparison study.