Awareness to improve interaction: design of distance learning environment

Authors:
Moonyati Yatid;Masahiro Takatsuka
Affiliations:
University of Sydney, NSW, Australia;University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Venue:
Proceedings of the 23rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
Year:
2011

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Abstract

This paper investigates the appropriate region to place the remote scene in a synchronous distance learning environment to attain lecturer's awareness towards students' activities. We carried out experiments aimed to engineer the new design environment that improves current distance learning classrooms by finding the relationship between human factors and design parameter. We hypothesized that it is easiest to recognize remote students' actions when the remote scene is located in lecturer's visual field, and closer to where he/she regularly puts his/her attention. We found that performance involving visual ability could be divided into 3 groups; near fixation (below 51° horizontally and below 80° laterally), far from fixation but within visual field, and out of visual field. The main contributions of this paper are the numerical evidence of visual ability and a framework of design that were derived from the experiments. We also provided design example of distance learning classroom that matches our findings.