Collaboration with personal devices in digital workrooms

在数字工作室中与个人设备协作。 数字工作室是多显示器生态系统，包括交互式墙壁和桌面等共享设备以及平板电脑、笔记本电脑和PDA等个人设备。虽然充满了可能性，但我们还不知道人们将如何在这些房间里协同工作。协作工作通常包括共享工作（例如讨论）和独立活动，其中个人暂时脱离团队以完成任务。问题是，如果在独立任务和小组任务之间转换很麻烦，它会中断活动流。在传统的工作室中，这些转变是通过不同表面和人员的语义分工来实现的。然而，这将如何发生在数字工作室？ 在拟议的研究中，我探讨了个人设备在数字工作室的集成作为支持这些过渡的机制。我将开发一个理论设计原理如何交互技术可以管理和协调这些过渡，通过空间和语义分布的任务。我将通过追求三个目标来实现这一目标：首先，我将设计、开发和评估在设备之间移动信息的机制，使人们能够在数字工作室中在共享和独立任务之间流畅地过渡;其次，我将探讨如何利用空间作为资源，协调数字工作室中共享和个人设备之间的活动，最后，我将研究数字工作室如何在长期使用中作为为第一个目标提供设计洞察力的手段。 这项工作对于不久的将来的计算至关重要。大型数字工作室正在迅速被商业、教育和研究所采用。它们很重要，因为它们允许具有不同专业知识的大型团体解决难题（例如，建筑，数据分析等）。一起该提案中的研究将有助于为技术设计提供信息，以支持这些数字工作室中有意义的自然活动。

Collaboration with personal devices in digital workrooms. Digital workrooms are multi-display ecologies comprising shared devices like interactive walls and tabletops, as well as personal devices such as tablets, laptops and PDAs. While rich with possibility, we do not yet know how people will work together collaboratively in these rooms. Collaborative work is generally comprised of both shared work (e.g. discussion) and independent activity, where an individual temporarily disengages with the group to complete a task. The problem is that if transitioning between independent and group tasks is cumbersome, it breaks the flow of activity. In traditional workrooms, with paper-based media, these transitions are achieved through the semantic division of labour across different surfaces and people. Yet, how will this occur in digital workrooms? In the proposed research, I explore the integration of personal devices in digital workrooms as a mechanism for supporting these transitions. I will develop a theoretical design rationale for how interaction techniques can manage and coordinate these transitions through both spatial and semantic distribution of tasks. I will do this by pursuing three objectives: first, I will design, develop and evaluate mechanisms for moving information between devices that allow people to fluidly transition between shared and independent tasks in digital workrooms; second, I will explore how space can be exploited as a resource for coordinating activity across shared and personal devices in digital workrooms, and finally, I will study how digital workrooms are appropriated over long-term use as a means of providing design insight for the first objective. This work is critical for near-future computing. Large-scale digital workrooms are rapidly becoming adopted in business, education and research. They are important, because they allow large groups with diverse expertise to tackle difficult problems (e.g. construction, data analysis, etc.) together. The research in this proposal will help inform the design of technologies to support meaningful, natural activity in these digital workrooms.