An Interface Toolkit for Interactive Workspaces

Biehl, Jacob T.; Bailey, Brian P.

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Title

An Interface Toolkit for Interactive Workspaces

Author(s)

• Biehl, Jacob T.
• Bailey, Brian P.

Issue Date

2004-12

Keyword(s)

Human-computer interaction

Abstract

To work productively in an interactive workspace, users need effective interfaces to seamlessly share, annotate, and juxtapose digital information across heterogeneous devices. Building on an existing infrastructure for interactive workspaces, we developed an interaction design that uses an iconic representation of a workspace to enable application relocation and input redirection tasks to be performed, a graphical tool for constructing the iconic representations, and a toolkit that provides runtime support for the interface. The iconic representation supports recognition over recall and the use of spatial memory when performing relocation and redirection tasks. A usability evaluation showed that the interaction design of our interface enables tasks to be performed quickly and with minimal error, induces low workload, and supports high satisfaction. While the toolkit was implemented on top of an existing infrastructure, it can be easily ported to others. Our toolkit can be downloaded today, and can facilitate more productive use of interactive workspaces for individual and group work.

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