Investigating Mobile Device-Based Interaction Techniques for Collocated Merging

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Abstract

In mixed-focus collaboration, group members create content both individually as a kind of groundwork for discussion and further processing as well as directly together in group work sessions. In case of individual creation, separate documents and contents need to be merged to receive an overall solution. In our work, we focus on mixed-focus collaboration using mobile devices, especially smartphones, to create and merge content. Instead of using emails or messenger services to share content within a group, we describe three different mobile device-based interaction techniques for merging that use built-in sensors to enable ad-hoc collaboration and that are easy and eyes-free to perform. We conducted a user study to investigate these merging interactions. Overall, 21 participants tested the interactions and evaluated task load and User Experience (UX) of the proposed device-based interactions. Furthermore, they compared the interactions with a common way to share content, namely writing an email to send attached content. Participants gave valuable user feedback and stated that our merging interaction techniques were much easier to perform. Furthermore, we found that they were much faster, less demanding, and had a greater UX than email.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLearning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing, Developing and Deploying Learning Experiences
EditorsPanayiotis Zaphiris, Andri Ioannou
PublisherSpringer
Pages92-108
Number of pages17
ISBN (electronic)978-3-030-50513-4
ISBN (print)978-3-030-50512-7
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12205 LNCS
ISSN0302-9743

Conference

Title7th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020
Duration19 - 24 July 2020
CityCopenhagen
CountryDenmark

External IDs

Scopus 85089164008
ORCID /0009-0003-6829-4260/work/167217366
ORCID /0000-0002-3513-6448/work/168720181

Keywords

Keywords

  • Collocated interaction, Device-based interaction, Merging, Mixed-focus collaboration, Mobile phone

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