Interactive Two-Sided Transparent Displays: Designing for Collaboration

Li, J., Greenberg, S., Sharlin, E. and Jorge, J. (2014)
Interactive Two-Sided Transparent Displays: Designing for Collaboration. In Proc. ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - ACM DIS'2014. (Vancouver, Canada), pages 395-404 plus video, June 21-25. Paper plus video figure (duration 4:08). Earlier slightly different version as Report 2014-1053-03(paper + video), January, 2014.

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Abstract

Transparent displays can serve as an important collaborative medium supporting face-to-face interactions over a shared visual work surface. Such displays enhance workspace awareness: when a person is working on one side of a transparent display, the person on the other side can see the other's body, hand gestures, gaze and what he or she is actually manipulating on the shared screen. Even so, we argue that designing such transparent displays must go beyond current offerings if it is to support collaboration. First, both sides of the display must accept interactive input, preferably by at least touch and / or pen, as that affords the ability for either person to directly interact with the workspace items. Second, and more controversially, both sides of the display must be able to present different content, albeit selectively. Third (and related to the second point), because screen contents and lighting can partially obscure what can be seen through the surface, the display should visually enhance the actions of the person on the other side to better support workspace awareness. We describe a prototype system we built to satisfy these requirements called FACINGBOARD-2, where we concentrate on how its design supports these three collaborative requirements.

Keywords

Two-sided transparent displays, workspace awareness, collaborative systems

Bibtex entry

@INPROCEEDINGS { 2014-TransparentDisplay.DIS,
CLASS = { ARTICLE },
AUTHOR = { Li, J. and Greenberg, S. and Sharlin, E. and Jorge, J. },
TITLE = { Interactive Two-Sided Transparent Displays: Designing for Collaboration },
YEAR = { 2014 },
MONTH = { June 21-25 },
BOOKTITLE = { Proc. ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - ACM DIS'2014 },
ADDRESS = { Vancouver, Canada },
PAGES = { 395-404 plus video },
DOI = { http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598518 },
NOTE = { Paper plus video figure (duration 4:08). Earlier slightly different version as Report 2014-1053-03(paper + video), January, 2014 },
KEYWORDS = { Two-sided transparent displays, workspace awareness, collaborative systems },
}