Realizing a video environment: EuroPARC's RAVE system
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Portholes: supporting awareness in a distributed work group
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Rethinking video as a technology for interpersonal communications: theory and design implications
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Techniques for addressing fundamental privacy and disruption tradeoffs in awareness support systems
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Your place or mine? Learning from long-term use of audio-video communication
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Evaluating image filtering based techniques in media space applications
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Tangible interfaces for remote collaboration and communication
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Tradeoffs in displaying peripheral information
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The effects of filtered video on awareness and privacy
CSCW '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Coordinating communication: awareness displays and interruption
CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Moticons: detection, distraction and task
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Notification user interfaces
Controlling interruptions: awareness displays and social motivation for coordination
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
QnA: augmenting an instant messaging client to balance user responsiveness and performance
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Predicting human interruptibility with sensors
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Supporting social worlds with the community bar
GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Responsiveness in instant messaging: predictive models supporting inter-personal communication
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
From awareness to connectedness: the design and deployment of presence displays
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI '92 Posters and Short Talks of the 1992 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A taxonomy of ambient information systems: four patterns of design
Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
Approaching and leave-taking: Negotiating contact in computer-mediated communication
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
GI '07 Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2007
Beyond "beyond being there": towards multiscale communication systems
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Multimedia
Privacy in the open: how attention mediates awareness and privacy in open-plan offices
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
A field study of community bar: (mis)-matches between theory and practice
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
The cost of interrupted work: more speed and stress
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
OpenMessenger: gradual initiation of interaction for distributed workgroups
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The scope and importance of human interruption in human-computer interaction design
Human-Computer Interaction
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Peripheral displays allow continuous awareness of information while performing other activities. Monitoring such a display while performing a central task has a cognitive cost that depends on its perceptual salience and the distraction it causes, i.e. the amount of attention it attracts away from the user's primary action. This paper considers the particular case of peripheral displays for interpersonal communication. It reports on an experiment that studied the effect of peripheral communication pace on subjects' allocation of attention in a dual-task situation: a snapshot-based peripheral monitoring task where participants need to assess the presence of a remote person, and a central text-correcting task against the clock. Our results show that the addition of the peripheral task caused a drop in the success rate of the central task. As the pace of snapshots increased, success rate decreased on the peripheral task while on the central one, success rate remained the same but failures to reply in time occurred more frequently. These results suggest that the increase in pace of snapshots caused participants to change their strategy for the central task and allocate more attention to the peripheral one, not enough to maintain peripheral performance but also not to the point where it would affect central performance. Overall, our work suggests that peripheral communication pace subtly influences attention allocation in dual-task situations. We conclude by discussing how control over information pace could help users of communication systems to adjust their local distraction as well as the attention they draw from remote users.