Office Social: Presentation Interactivity for Nearby Devices

2016. Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Kenton O'Hara, Sean Rintel & Roman Rädle
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Abstract

Slide presentations have long been stuck in a one-to-many paradigm, limiting audience engagement. Based on the concept of smartphone-based remote control of slide navigation, we present Office Social-a PowerPoint plugin and companion smartphone app that allows audience members qualified access to slides for personal review and, when the presenter enables it, public control over slide navigation. We studied the longitudinal use of Office Social across four meetings of a workgroup. We found that shared access and regulated control facilitated various forms of public and personal audience engagement. We discuss how enabling ad-hoc aggregation of co-proximate devices reduces 'interaction costs' and leads to both opportunities and challenges for presentation situations.

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Citation

Chattopadhyay, D., O'Hara, K., Rintel, S., & Rädle, R. (2016). Office social: presentation interactivity for nearby devices. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2487–2491). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858337, doi:10.1145/2858036.2858337

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/2858036.2858337,
author = {Chattopadhyay, Debaleena and O'Hara, Kenton and Rintel, Sean and R\"{a}dle, Roman},
title = {Office Social: Presentation Interactivity for Nearby Devices},
year = {2016},
isbn = {9781450333627},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858337},
doi = {10.1145/2858036.2858337},
abstract = {Slide presentations have long been stuck in a one-to-many paradigm, limiting audience engagement. Based on the concept of smartphone-based remote control of slide navigation, we present Office Social-a PowerPoint plugin and companion smartphone app that allows audience members qualified access to slides for personal review and, when the presenter enables it, public control over slide navigation. We studied the longitudinal use of Office Social across four meetings of a workgroup. We found that shared access and regulated control facilitated various forms of public and personal audience engagement. We discuss how enabling ad-hoc aggregation of co-proximate devices reduces 'interaction costs' and leads to both opportunities and challenges for presentation situations.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
pages = {2487–2491},
numpages = {5},
keywords = {audience engagement, collocated collaboration, presentation interactivity, social devices},
location = {San Jose, California, USA},
series = {CHI '16}
}