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Which abstract representation in the diagram above enables users to most quickly and easily determine that the message is from someone at work (before and after learning the mapping)? What general properties of these designs lead to better glanceability? How do you evaluate the designs to determine which is most glanceable in the periphery?
Glanceable visuals better help users monitor secondary tasks while multitasking by enabling quick and easy information uptake. However, little is known about how to best design glanceable information abstractions for multitasking situations. I conduct a series of interviews and studies to inform the design and evaluation of glanceable interfaces. The major contribution of this work is an understanding of how to design and evaluate glanceable interfaces, which will improve user ability to manage multiple tasks through low-effort monitoring.
Tara Matthews, Tye Rattenbury, Scott Carter. “Defining, designing, and evaluating peripheral displays: An analysis using Activity Theory.” Human-Computer Interaction Journal, 22(1), 2007.
Scott Carter, Jennifer Mankoff, Scott Klemmer, Tara Matthews. “Exiting the cleanroom: On ecological validity and ubiquitous computing.” Human-Computer Interaction, In press.
Tara Matthews, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, Desney Tan. "Clipping Lists and Change Borders: Improving Multitasking Efficiency with Peripheral Information Design." In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI). Montreal, Quebec, Canada, pp. 989-998, 2006.
Tara Matthews. "Designing and Evaluating Glanceable Peripheral Displays." In Proceedings of the conference on Designing interactive systems: DIS Doctoral Consortium. State College, PA, pp. 343-345, 2006.
Tara Matthews, Jodi Forlizzi, Stacie Rohrbach. “Designing Glanceable Peripheral Displays.” Technical Report No. EECS-2006-113, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2006.
Tara Matthews. "Designing and evaluating glanceable peripheral displays." DIS 2006. State College, PA.
Tara Matthews. "Clipping Lists and Change Borders: Improving Multitasking Efficiency with Peripheral Information Design." CHI 2006. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (ppt | pdf)
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