@inproceedings{35b89b253a504b979b94c50999ad04e3,
title = "Suturing space: Tabletop portals for collaboration",
abstract = "Most video-conferencing technologies focus on 1-1, person-to-person links, typically showing the heads and shoulders of the conversants seated facing their cameras. This limits their movement and expects foveal attention. Adding people to the conversation multiplies the complexity and competes for visual real estate and video bandwidth. Most coronal meaning-making activity is excised by this frontal framing of the participants. This method does not scale well as the number of participants rises. This research presents a different approach to augmenting collaboration and learning. Instead of projecting people to remote spaces, furniture is digitally augmented to effectively exist in two (or more) locations at once. An autoethnographic analysis of social protocols of this technology is presented. We ask, how can such shared objects provide a common site for ad hoc activity in concurrent conversations among people who are not co-located but co-present via audio?",
keywords = "Augmented reality, Blended learning, Collaboration technology, Collaboration technology, Collaborative knowledge construction, Collaborative work, Communities, Computational matter, Furniture design, Gestural interfaces, Inquiry-based learning, Interactive architecture, Interdisciplinary Studies, Interior design, Lifelong learning, Live audio, Live video, Mixed reality, Problem-based learning, Project-based Learning, Real-time interactive media, Realtime media, Responsive architecture, Responsive media, Smart architecture, Smart objects, Social media, Social networking, Social processes, Surface computing, Suturing spaces, Tabletop displays, Teams, Technology-enhanced learning, Technology-rich interactive learning environments, User interfaces",
author = "Evan Montpellier and Johnson, {Garrett Laroy} and Faleh, {Omar Al} and Joshua Gigantino and Assegid Kidane and Nikolaos Chandolias and Connor Rawls and Todd Ingalls and Xin Sha",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-20916-6_44",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783319209159",
volume = "9170",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "472--484",
booktitle = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
note = "17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2015 ; Conference date: 02-08-2015 Through 07-08-2015",
}