Computer Science

Investigating paradigms of group territory in multiple display environments

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Multiple-display environments (MDEs) have promise in helping co-located sensemaking tasks by supporting searching, organizing, and discussion tasks. Co-located sensemaking occurs when two or more sensemakers forage for useful information within a dataset, creating and leveraging knowledge structures individually and together. Group territories in MDEs support communicating and assembling findings, but questions remain regarding how to best represent individual sensemaking efforts in the group territory to support the sensemaking collaboration. This paper empirically examines exploration of a large Twitter dataset using three group territory paradigms: parallel, connected, and merged. Results reveal that merging group work increases task complexity while separating individuals' sections in the group territory supports monitoring, and more interactions are performed when individual work is not connected in the group territory.

Publication Title

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Publication Date

2020

Volume

4

Issue

GROUP

DOI

10.1145/3375193

Keywords

awareness, co-located collaboration, communication, control, group territory, multi-display environment, sensemaking, tabletop

APA Citation

Niu, S., McCrickard, D. S., Nguyen, J., Haqq, D., Kotut, L., Stelter, T. L., & Fox, E. A. (2020). Investigating paradigms of group territory in multiple display environments. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4(GROUP), 1-28.

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