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Collaboration in the Living Room or How Couples Design Together

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Foong-Yi Chia,

Bokyung Lee,

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NordiCHI '16: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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Published: 23 October 2016 Publication History

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Although many decisions in the home are made together, between partners and within families, most digital applications for interior design are geared towards single user operation. In this paper, we present the results of a first look into how couples design together and how that is different from how professional designers collaborate in teams. Based on prior art in collaborative design, we developed a shelf design application that runs on multiple and synchronized tablets and includes a projector that projects the design real-time and real-scale in the living room. We asked pairs of participants to design with the application using two tablets in a single shared design space and using two tablets with both private and shared design spaces. The initial results with three couples in their homes reveal how they design together which might help future design applications for at home.

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Herckis LCao JFashimpaur JHenson ARodgers RCorbett THammer JWakkary RAndersen KOdom WDesjardins APetersen M(2020)Exploring Hybrid Virtual-Physical HomesProceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3357236.3395561(669-680)Online publication date: 3-Jul-2020
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