Serendipity within a Ubiquitous Computing Environment: A Case for Opportunistic Browsing
UbiComp '01 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
The AMIDA Automatic Content Linking Device: Just-in-Time Document Retrieval in Meetings
MLMI '08 Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction
WeSearch: supporting collaborative search and sensemaking on a tabletop display
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
A tabletop learning environment for logistics assistants: activating teachers
HCI '08 Proceedings of the Third IASTED International Conference on Human Computer Interaction
A socially aware persuasive system for supporting conversations at the museum café
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
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In meetings, people sometimes come across information in the environment or in the conversation. This kind of accidentally encountered information may be or not be relevant to the main meeting topic, but stirs people's temporary interest and mediates group conversation. In some cases people even need to search these unexpected terms in the Web. This phenomenon is called opportunistic search. We question if digital displays can be designed to support opportunistic search in meetings. Assuming information sharing in collocated meetings may largely come from conversation, we propose to design an ambient tabletop display that provides just-in-time conversational information to support opportunistic browsing and searching. In this paper, we present our design explorations with user study, and answer some of the major design questions for such systems.