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Usability on a Shareable Interface in a Multiuser Setting

Abstract

This paper reports on an experiment investigating how the number of simultaneous users affects the usability and user experience of a shareable user interface. Participants were instructed to complete individual drawing tasks on a shareable user interface running on a multi-touch surface table. The results show an increase in performance (shorter task completion times) correlated to an increase in the number of simultaneous users. No significant increase in user errors was observed when the number of simultaneous users was increased. However, despite these quantitative improvements in usability, participants reported that the tasks were more challenging when multiple users were working together.

Category

Academic chapter

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Peter K Askvig Havgar
  • Thomas Schwitalla
  • Jørgen Valen
  • Aslak Wegner Eide
  • Bjørn Anders Hoffstad Reutz

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Digital / Sustainable Communication Technologies
  • University of Oslo

Year

2014

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Book

NordiCHI '14 : Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational, Oct 26-30 2014, Helsinki, Finland

ISBN

9781450325424

Page(s)

561 - 564

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