Designing for Collaborative Turn-Taking at the Digital Tabletop

• Main Author: Rybing, Jonas
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap 2011
• Subjects: Collaboration; turn-taking; distributed cognition; digital tabletops; design; communication; coordination
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-71604

Collaboration technologies are difficult to design due to the complex myr-iad of social, cognitive, and communicative aspects of group interactions. New interaction technologies like multitouch sharable interfaces, such asdigital tabletops, have lead to a renewed interest in designing collaborativetechnologies. This thesis focuses on turn-taking protocols as a coordinat-ing mechanism during collaborative work with digital tabletops. The goalwas to develop new conceptual designs and interactive mechanisms to sup-port face-to-face collaborations of small groups. Inspired by ethnographicalstudies of collaborative work and theories in distributed cognition and re-lated theories of language and action a model of collaborative turn-takingwas developed. Moreover, the thesis presents five design concepts and in-teraction components for the digital tabletop that exemplifies the differentproperties of the model.