Sharing bubbles: reflections on offline multi-surface scenarios

TL;DR: This paper explores how the TV can be utilized to view screen-mirrored device activity, decreasing the digital isolation of device usage and examines new approaches toward the accessibility of device activity.

TL;DR: This paper provides the foundations of a multi-user multi-view smart TV that can support users to transition between independent and shared activity and gain awareness of the activities of others, on a single shared TV that no longer suffers the bottleneck of one physical view.

TL;DR: This thesis investigates how forms of whole-classroom activity can be supported by combining shareable technologies with simulation, team play and orchestration and provides substantial empirical evidence, suggesting that CLOVER-based applications can effectively reconcile learning needs and technological affordances with the inherent benefits and constraints of teacher-driven, co-located environments.

TL;DR: Oral practices offer oppositional power in designing digital bubbles to support human togetherness and that design can enrich design by moving the centre is proposed.

TL;DR: The F-formation system as discussed by the authors is a structural model for frame-attunement in face-to-face interaction, and it has been shown to be effective in the context analysis of face to face interaction.

TL;DR: This paper describes a system – the Opinionizer – which is designed and placed in two authentic social gatherings, intended to encourage socializing and interaction, and presents a model of public interaction flow, which is used as the basis for design recommendations for encouraging public participation.

Abstract: 42 coVer STory " When you walk up to your computer, does the screen saver stop and the working windows reveal themselves? Does it even know if you are there? How hard would it be to change this? Is it not ironic that, in this regard, a motion-sensing light switch is " smarter " than any of the switches in the computer…? —Bill Buxton [1] In 1966 anthropologist Edward Hall coined the term " proxemics, " an area of study that identifies the culturally dependent ways in which people use interpersonal distance to understand and mediate their interactions with other people [2]. While his theory of proxemics has many aspects to it, perhaps the most relevant to HCI are his definitions of four proxemic " zones, " which characterize how people interpret interpersonal distance: intimate (less than 1.5 feet), personal (1.5 to 4 feet), social (4 to 12 feet), and public (12 to 25 feet). As these names imply, closer distances lead to increasing expectations of inter-personal engagement and intimacy. In practice, people adjust these distances not only to match their social activities, but also to raise defense mechanisms when others intrude into these zones. Hall also described how features within the space affect people's interactions. " Fixed features " include those that mark boundaries (e.g., entrances to a particular type of room), where people tend to organize certain kinds of social activities within these boundaries. " Semi-fixed features " are entities whose position can affect whether the space tends to bring people together or move them apart (for example, the arrangement of chairs). To understand why this is important to ubiquitous computing (ubicomp), we need to revisit the ubicomp vision. In 1991 Mark Weiser—recognized as the founder

TL;DR: Using data gathered through participant observation and informal interviews at DreamHack Winter 2005 and 2009, a number of themes are explored that not only provide insight into aspects of face-to-face real-time play at LAN parties but also highlight considerations for game studies more generally.