Supporting collaboration on very large-scale interactive wall surfaces


Autoria(s): Rittenbruch, Markus
Data(s)

08/03/2015

Resumo

In this paper we describe CubIT, a multi-user presentation and collaboration system installed at the Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) Cube facility. The ‘Cube’ is an interactive visualisation facility made up of five very large-scale interactive multi-panel wall displays, each consisting of up to twelve 55-inch multi-touch screens (48 screens in total) and massive projected display screens situated above the display panels. The paper outlines the unique design challenges, features, implementation and evaluation of CubIT. The system was built to make the Cube facility accessible to QUT’s academic and student population. CubIT enables users to easily upload and share their own media content, and allows multiple users to simultaneously interact with the Cube’s wall displays. The features of CubIT were implemented via three user interfaces, a multi-touch interface working on the wall displays, a mobile phone and tablet application and a web-based content management system. Each of these interfaces plays a different role and offers different interaction mechanisms. Together they support a wide range of collaborative features including multi-user shared workspaces, drag and drop upload and sharing between users, session management and dynamic state control between different parts of the system. The results of our evaluation study showed that CubIT was successfully used for a variety of tasks, and highlighted challenges with regards to user expectations regarding functionality as well as issues arising from public use.

Formato

application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/77661/

Publicador

Kluwer Academic Publishers (Springer)

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/77661/1/77661_acceptedVer.pdf

DOI:10.1007/s10606-015-9221-x

Rittenbruch, Markus (2015) Supporting collaboration on very large-scale interactive wall surfaces. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 24(2-3), pp. 121-147.

Direitos

Copyright 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht

Fonte

School of Design; Creative Industries Faculty; Institute for Future Environments

Palavras-Chave #080602 Computer-Human Interaction #120304 Digital and Interaction Design #Multitouch #Very large displays #Interactive wall displays #User-centered design #RFID #Cross-device interaction
Tipo

Journal Article