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semi-public displays

The majority of systems using public displays to foster awareness have focused on the problem of providing information across remote locations or among people who are loosely connected and lack awareness of each others' activities and interests. We have, however, identified many potential benefits for an awareness system that displays information within a small, co-located group in which the members are already highly aware of each others' activities. By using "semi-public displays," public displays scoped for small groups, we can make certain types of information visible in the environment, promoting collaboration and providing lightweight information about group activity.

Public displays are becoming ubiquitous but underused resources in office and lab environments. We aim to take advantage of these surfaces to make information that is of use to group members persistent in the environment. Mass emails or word-of-mouth requests such as, "can anyone look over my UIST submission?" are often forgotten, necessitating repeated requests. Using peripheral public displays to make this information constantly visible can help foster higher levels of awareness between group members and aid collaboration. Additionally, such displays can be used to provide abstracted representations of group presence and activities to give the viewer a quick, at-a-glace picture of group interests, without divulging particular details of individuals' calendars and status.


 

 


Figure 1: Semi-public displays
 

people
Elaine M. Huang [elaine@cc.gatech.edu]
Elizabeth Mynatt [mynatt@cc.gatech.edu]

 

funding
IBM Watson Faculty Partnership Award.
 

publications
Mynatt, E.D., Huang, E.M., Voida, S., MacIntyre, B. (2003). "Large displays for knowledge work " In O'Hara, K., Perry, M., Churchill, E., Ru ssell, D. (Eds.) Public and Situated Displays. Kluwer Academic Publis hers, 2003.[pdf]

Huang, E. M. and Mynatt, E. D. (2003). "Semi-public displays for small, co-located groups." In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2003). Fort Lauderdale, Florida: ACM Press, pp. 49-56. [pdf]

Tyman, J., and Huang, E. M. (2003). "Intuitive visualizations of presence and recency information for ambient displays" In Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2003). Fort Lauderdale, Florida: ACM Press, pp. 1002-1003. [pdf]

Huang, E. M. and Mynatt, E. D. (2002). "Tailoring public displays for small, co-located groups." In the Companion Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2002). New Orleans, Louisiana. [pdf]

Huang, E. M. and Mynatt, E. D. (2002). "Shared displays for small communities: optimizing for privacy and relevance." Position paper and Invited Presentation for the Workshop on Public, Community, and Situated Displays at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2002). New Orleans, Louisiana. [pdf]
     

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