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PresenceDisplays: Tangible Peripheral Displays for Promoting Awareness and Connectedness
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@MISC{Guzman_presencedisplays:tangible,
author = {Edward S. De Guzman},
title = {PresenceDisplays: Tangible Peripheral Displays for Promoting Awareness and Connectedness},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Abstract. Peripheral displays allow users to monitor an information source while focusing on a separate primary task. In this report, we present work investigating what form tangible peripheral displays of awareness information from instant messaging programs may take and the role these displays could have in existing communication practices by allowing the user to develop a sense of awareness and connectedness. We describe several prototypes of tangible, aesthetic displays of awareness information which were motivated by several user-centered and participatory design techniques, including an affective probe technique introduced in this report. Two of the prototypes were built and then deployed to nine users for five weeks to determine how well the user can obtain awareness information from the display and if extended use promotes a feeling of connectedness with the person mapped to the display. Analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from the deployment suggests that awareness information contributes to a feeling of connectedness by provoking the user to think about the person mapped to the display more often. It was also found that awareness information can serve as a cue for heavyweight communications but this is not a prerequisite for developing connectedness.
Keyphrases
awareness information tangible peripheral display separate primary task qualitative data aesthetic display peripheral display communication practice affective probe technique several prototype participatory design technique form tangible peripheral display heavyweight communication information source
