Proximity and physical navigation in collaborative work with a multi-touch wall-display

  • Authors:
  • Mikkel Jakobsen;Kasper Hornbæk

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Multi-touch, wall-sized displays afford new forms of collaboration. Yet, most data on collaboration with multi-touch displays come from tabletop settings, where users often sit and where space is a limited resource. We study how two-person groups navigate in relation to a 2.8m x 1.2m multi-touch display with 24.8 megapixels and to each other when solving a sensemaking task on a document collection. The results show that users physically navigate to shift fluently among different parts of the display and between parallel and joint group work.