The NiCE Discussion Room: Integrating Paper and Digital Media to Support Co-Located Group Meetings

  • Authors:

  • Michael Haller;Jakob Leitner;Thomas Seifried;James R. Wallace;Stacey D. Scott;Christoph Richter;Peter Brandl;Adam Gokcezade;Seth Hunter

  • Affiliations:

  • Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria;Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria;Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria;University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada;University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada;Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria;Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria;Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria;MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Current technological solutions that enable content creation and sharing during group discussion meetings are often cumbersome to use, and are commonly abandoned for traditional paper-based tools, which provide flexibility in supporting a wide range of working styles and task activities that may occur in a given meeting. Paper-based tools, however, have their own drawbacks; paper-based content is difficult to modify or replicate. We introduce a novel digital meeting room design, the NiCE Discussion Room, which integrates digital and paper tools into a cohesive system with an intuitive pen-based interface. The combination of digital and paper media provides groups with a flexible design solution that enables them to create, access, and share information and media from a variety of sources to facilitate group discussions. This paper describes the design solution, along with results from a user study conducted to evaluate the usability and utility of the system.