Portholes: supporting awareness in a distributed work group
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Your place or mine? Learning from long-term use of audio-video communication
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
IM here: public instant messaging on large, shared displays for workgroup interactions
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 17th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
The language of privacy: Learning from video media space analysis and design
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Café life in the digital age: augmenting information flow in a café-work-entertainment space
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
It's Mine, Don't Touch!: interactions at a large multi-touch display in a city centre
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Making love in the network closet: the benefits and work of family videochat
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Creating a rural community display with local engagement
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Sketching with strangers: in the wild study of ad hoc social communication by drawing
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Cool interaction with calm technologies: experimenting with ice as a multitouch surface
ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
Real world responses to interactive gesture based public displays
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
Looking glass: a field study on noticing interactivity of a shop window
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 4th Media Architecture Biennale Conference: Participation
A design space for ephemeral user interfaces
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction
Public Displays Invade Urban Spaces
IEEE Pervasive Computing
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Public displays offer the possibility to open a virtual window to another place by showing a live video feed from a remote location. In this paper, we describe our research investigating connecting two spaces with pervasive displays, where the ability to see through the virtual window was user controlled. The set-up was designed to resemble a frozen window, where the user was able to melt the surface using gesture input. We organized a four day field study with four alternating designs to evaluate our system, and collected feedback from 14 users through online surveys and focus groups. Our salient findings reveal that Ice Window was perceived as fun and interesting, and it has potential for facilitate awareness and informal ways of collaboration not only between the two locations, but also at one side of the display. People were most comfortable with a design that implemented two-sided melting of the ice. This was perceived as best able to indicate communication attempts between the two locations whilst respecting privacy.