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Subtle and Personal Workspace Requirements for Visual Search Tasks on Public Displays

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2017-05-06

Authors

Wallace, James R.
Ariel, Weingarten
Lank, Edward

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ACM Press

Abstract

We explore how users approach and define personal space on large, public displays. Our results show that users of public displays use one of two strategies for visual search tasks: minimizers create a small window and work up close to the display, and maximizers expand content to its full resolution and work at a distance. We show that these interaction styles match predicted `personal' and `subtle' interaction zones, characterize typical width and height requirements for these interactions, and show that these requirements are independent of the on-screen content's dimensions. Finally, we suggest practical guidelines for defining workspaces during personal and subtle interaction on large, public displays.

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This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in the Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems on the ACM Digital Library http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025500

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Large Public Displays, Personal Workspace, Visual Search

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http://hdl.handle.net/10012/11277

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Waterloo Research
Computer Science
Public Health Sciences (School of)