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Lou Schwartz

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arXiv2025

Designing at 1:1 Scale on Wall-Sized Displays Using Existing UI Design Tools

Wall-Sized Displays have spatial characteristics that are difficult to address during user interface design. The design at scale 1:1 could be part of the solution. In this paper, we present the results of two user studies and one technology review, exploring the usability of popular, desktop-optimized prototyping tools, for designing at scale on Wall-Sized Displays. We considered two wall-sized display setups, and three different interaction methods: touch, a keyboard equipped with a touchpad, and a tablet. We observed that designing at scale 1:1 was appreciated. Tablet-based interaction proved to be the most comfortable interaction method, and a mix of interaction modalities is promising. In addition, care must be given to the surrounding environment, such as furniture. We propose twelve design guidelines for a design tool dedicated to this specific context. Overall, existing user interface design tools do not yet fully support design on and for wall-sized displays and require further considerations in terms of placement of user interface elements and the provision of additional features.

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arXiv2024

Workspace Awareness Needs in Mixed-Presence Collaboration on Wall-Sized Displays

To enhance workspace awareness for mixed-presence meetings with large displays, previous work propose digital cues to share gestures, gaze, or entire postures. While such cues were demonstrated useful in horizontal or smaller workspaces, efforts have focused on isolated elements in controlled settings. It is unknown what needs would emerge with a more realistic setting and how they could be addressed with workspace awareness cues. In this paper, we report on the results of a focus group, centred around users' perceptions while testing a mixed-presence scenario on wall-sized displays. We analyse the gathered comments using Gutwin and Greenberg's workspace awareness framework to identify the most relevant needs. Our results lead to a refinement of the original framework for wall-sized displays and in particular to a categorization into three types of workspace awareness components (i) the Environment, (ii) Actions and (iii) Attention.

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arXiv2024

Establishing Awareness through Pointing Gestures during Collaborative Decision-Making in a Wall-Display Environment

Sharing a physical environment, such as that of a wall-display, facilitates gaining awareness of others' actions and intentions, thereby bringing benefits for collaboration. Previous studies have provided first insights on awareness in the context of tabletops or smaller vertical displays. This paper seeks to advance the current understanding on how users share awareness information in wall-display environments and focusses on mid-air pointing gestures as a foundational part of communication. We present a scenario dealing with the organization of medical supply chains in crisis situations, and report on the results of a user study with 24 users, split into 6 groups of 4, performing several tasks. We investigate pointing gestures and identify three subtypes used as awareness cues during face-to-face collaboration: narrative pointing, loose pointing, and sharp pointing. Our observations show that reliance on gesture subtypes varies across participants and groups, and that sometimes vague pointing is sufficient to support verbal negotiations.

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