Collaborative Spaces

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Collaborative Spaces

• Presented by
• Jonathan Effrat
• David Tu

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Papers

• Iterative Design of Seamless Collaboration
  MediaHiroshi Ishii, Minoru Kobayashi, Kazuho
  AritaCommunications of the ACM, Aug 1994
• Interacting with Paper on the DigitalDeskPierre
  WellnerCommunications of the ACM, Jul 1993
• Multiple-Computer User Interfaces Beyond the
  Desktop Direct Manipulation EnvironmentsJun
  RekimotoCHI 2000 ACM Conference on Human
  Factors in Computing Systems

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Seamless Collaboration Media Ishii et al.

• Iterative design TWS-12 -gt ClearBoard12
• Seamless integration w/ work practices and
  between functions
• Choice of media should be individual
• Design idea translucent overlay(images
  facial expression)
• HCI to HHI

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DigitalDesk Wellner

• Computer augmented environment
• Making the desk more like a workstation
• Beyond direct manipulation with a mouse use
  tactile interactions w/ finger
• Design idea deskw/ video projection and video
  capture
• Calculator, PaperPaint, DoubleDigitalDesk

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MCUI - Rekimoto

• Multiple Computer User Interfaces
• Design idea seamlessly transfer information
  between ubicomp devices
• Pick-and-drop, digital table, digital wall,
  hyperdragging
• Tangible manipulation

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Mini Activity 1Seamless Collaboration Media

• ClearBoard Exercise

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Mini Activity 1Seamless Collaboration Media

• ClearBoard Exercise
• Positives of collaboration media
• Improvements
• Thoughts on the iterative process in the paper
• Why is the technology is not in the market?
• How can it scale to multiple users?

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Mini Activity 2Digital Desk

• How many read CS 376 articles online vs. on
  paper?
• When do you choose to use electronic documents
  vs. paper documents?
• Can you imagine using DigitalDesk? What are some
  positives? What are some potential improvements?

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Mini Activity 3MCUI
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Brainstorm

• Think about situations you wish you could
  collaborate with others but todays technology
  doesnt facilitate it well
• How might technologies in these papers help
  alleviate these?
• What other technologies might help to solve
  these?

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Concluding Remarks

• What are some of the commonalities takeaways
  between the papers

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Summary
Distributed
Co-located
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Synchronous
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Asynchronous