Improving the Effectiveness of Co-located Collaboration Technologies

提高协同办公技术的有效性

• 批准号: RGPIN-2017-04567
• 负责人: Scott, Stacey
• 金额: $ 3.06万
• 依托单位: University of Guelph
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=709700
• 关键词: Improving; Effectiveness; Co; located; Collaboration

In an increasingly connected global information society, teams commonly collaborate across time zones and continents. Yet, there are still tremendous advantages to engaging with people in a face-to-face (or co-located) environment. People can utilize a variety of communication channels, allowing rich, real-time visual and auditory communication, and providing important contextual information. These factors can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of communication and collaboration. However, when people wish to utilize digital information during co-located group work they are left with ill-suited computer interfaces designed for personal or remote collaboration use. This leads to awkward, inefficient interactions. The overarching goal of this research program is to develop computer interfaces better suited to the co-located collaboration context, where the available technology leverages the physically shared space, and the people and their behaviour within the space. This work leverages the increased connectedness of personal devices, including tablets, smartphones, wearables, and laptops, as well as two decades of interactive large display research. Together these technologies allow for an exciting mix of multi-device ecologies that can support a wide range of co-located group work. These devicesand their environmentsare also becoming much “smarter” via a multitude of on-board and add-on sensors that detect device movement and user behaviour. These additional sensory “channels” present an unprecedented opportunity to build computer interfaces that can better detect and respond to subtle behavioural cues to enable more effective and efficient computer interactions. Thus, the near-term goal of this research is to leverage the multi-sensory ability of “smart” devices to provide more sophisticated interfaces that leverage the physicality of the co-located environment and the people and the devices located within. The research will involve two main research themes, broken down into seven complementary projects, including: 1) investigation of social behaviours that facilitate co-located group work, and 2) development of multi-device user interfaces that foster beneficial social behaviours. Developing co-located computer interfaces that significantly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of group work across a variety of team situations from everyday office work to more high-stress, high-stakes situations has considerable opportunity for impacting our modern information society.

在日益紧密联系的全球信息社会中，团队通常跨时区和大洲进行协作。然而，在面对面（或共处一处）的环境中与人们互动仍然有巨大的优势。人们可以利用各种沟通渠道，实现丰富的实时视觉和听觉沟通，并提供重要的上下文信息。这些因素可以提高沟通和协作的效率和有效性。然而，当人们希望在协同定位的小组工作期间利用数字信息时，他们留下了为个人或远程协作使用而设计的不合适的计算机接口。这会导致尴尬、低效的互动。该研究计划的总体目标是开发更适合协同定位协作环境的计算机界面，其中可用的技术利用物理共享空间以及空间内的人员及其行为。这项工作利用了平板电脑、智能手机、可穿戴设备和笔记本电脑等个人设备日益增强的连接性，以及二十年的交互式大型显示屏研究。这些技术共同实现了多设备生态的令人兴奋的组合，可以支持广泛的协同工作。这些设备和它们的环境也变得更加“智能”，通过大量的板载和附加传感器来检测设备移动和用户行为。这些额外的感官“通道”为构建计算机界面提供了前所未有的机会，这些界面可以更好地检测和响应微妙的行为线索，从而实现更有效和高效的计算机交互。因此，这项研究的近期目标是利用“智能”设备的多感官能力，提供更复杂的界面，利用共同定位的环境和人的物理性和位于其中的设备。该研究将涉及两个主要研究主题，分为七个互补项目，包括：1）促进共处小组工作的社会行为调查，以及2）开发多设备用户界面，促进有益的社会行为。开发协同定位的计算机接口，显着提高效率和有效性的小组工作在各种团队的情况下，从日常的办公室工作，更高的压力，高风险的情况下，有相当大的机会影响我们的现代信息社会。