The NICE discussion room: integrating paper and digital media to support co-located group meetings

Current technological solutions that enable content creation and sharing during group discussion meetings are often cumbersome to use, and are commonly abandoned for traditional paper-based tools, which provide flexibility in supporting a wide range of working styles and task activities that may occur in a given meeting. Paper-based tools, however, have their own drawbacks; paper-based content is difficult to modify or replicate. We introduce a novel digital meeting room design, the NiCE Discussion Room, which integrates digital and paper tools into a cohesive system with an intuitive pen-based interface. The combination of digital and paper media provides groups with a flexible design solution that enables them to create, access, and share information and media from a variety of sources to facilitate group discussions. This paper describes the design solution, along with results from a user study conducted to evaluate the usability and utility of the system. Author Keywords co-locate...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Michael Haller, Jakob Leitner, Thomas Seifried, James R. Wallace, Stacey D. Scott, Christoph Richter, Peter Brandl, Adam Gokcezade, Seth E. Hunter
• Keywords: CHI 2010, Digital Meeting Room, Human Computer Interaction, Paper-based Tools, Pen-based Interfaces