The LunchTable: a multi-user, multi-display system for information sharing in casual group interactions

TY - GEN

T1 - The LunchTable

T2 - 1st International Symposium on Pervasive Displays

AU - Nacenta, Miguel A.

AU - Jakobsen, Mikkel Rønne

AU - Dautriche, Remy

AU - Hinrichs, Uta

AU - Dörk, Marian

AU - Haber, Jonathan

AU - Carpendale, Sheelagh

N1 - Conference code: 1

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - People often use mobile devices to access information during conversations in casual settings, but mobile devices are not well suited for interaction in groups. Large situated displays promise to better support access to and sharing of information in casual conversations. This paper presents the LunchTable, a multi-user system based on semi-public displays that supports such casual group interactions around a lunch table. We describe our design goals and the resulting system, as well as a weeklong study of the interaction with the system in the lunch space of a research lab. Our results show substantial use of the LunchTable for sharing visual information such as online maps and videos that are otherwise difficult to share in conversations. Also, equal simultaneous access from several users does not seem critical in casual group interactions.

AB - People often use mobile devices to access information during conversations in casual settings, but mobile devices are not well suited for interaction in groups. Large situated displays promise to better support access to and sharing of information in casual conversations. This paper presents the LunchTable, a multi-user system based on semi-public displays that supports such casual group interactions around a lunch table. We describe our design goals and the resulting system, as well as a weeklong study of the interaction with the system in the lunch space of a research lab. Our results show substantial use of the LunchTable for sharing visual information such as online maps and videos that are otherwise difficult to share in conversations. Also, equal simultaneous access from several users does not seem critical in casual group interactions.

KW - casual interaction, large displays, multi-display user interfaces, multi-touch, multi-user, surface computing

U2 - 10.1145/2307798.2307816

DO - 10.1145/2307798.2307816

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-4503-1414-5

BT - Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Pervasive Displays

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

Y2 - 4 June 2012 through 5 June 2012

ER -