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In this paper we present an empirical study of the effectiveness of tablet-based interaction for users of a tabletop shared virtual workspace. We built a tabletop interaction environment in which tablet terminals present sliding windows onto a larger, shared virtual workspace, allowing multiple users to view and manipulate objects within the workspace. The environment offers a physical paradigm to support groupwork within the shared virtual space, providing users with good situational awareness of their viewing position with respect both to the viewing positions of other users and to the location of content within the large virtual workspace. We conducted experiments to compare ‘tablet scrolling’ with a more traditional ‘swipe-scroll’ paradigm for the ease remembering the positions of objects, locating the viewable area within the overall workspace, and communicating locations between users during groupwork. The results show that the tabletop interaction environment enables workers to communicate more effectively than ‘swipe-scroll’ paradigms, although difficulties associated with scrolling and physical movement may decrease the efficiency of individual work.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 25330249.
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Ito, N., Takada, H., Piumarta, I. (2016). Effectiveness of Tabletop Interaction Using Tablet Terminals in a Shared Virtual Workspace. In: Yuizono, T., Ogata, H., Hoppe, U., Vassileva, J. (eds) Collaboration and Technology. CRIWG 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9848. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44799-5_8
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