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Impromptu: a new interaction framework for supporting collaboration in multiple display environments and its field evaluation for co-located software development

Authors:

Jacob T. Biehl,

William T. Baker,

Brian P. Bailey,

Kori M. Inkpen,

Mary CzerwinskiAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '08: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 939 - 948

https://doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357200

Published: 06 April 2008 Publication History

Abstract

We present a new interaction framework for collaborating in multiple display environments (MDEs) and report results from a field study investigating its use in an authentic work setting. Our interaction framework, IMPROMPTU, allows users to share task information across displays via off-the-shelf applications, to jointly interact with information for focused problem solving and to place information on shared displays for discussion and reflection. Our framework also includes a lightweight interface for performing these and related actions. A three week field study of our framework was conducted in the domain of face-to-face group software development. Results show that teams utilized almost every feature of the framework in support of a wide range of development-related activities. The framework was used most to facilitate opportunistic collaboration involving task information. Teams reported wanting to continue using the framework as they found value in it overall.

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DOI:10.1145/1357054

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