FrostWall: a dual-sided situated display for informal collaboration in the corridor

2009. Jesper Kjeldskov, Jeni Paay, Kenton O'Hara, Ross Smith & Bruce Thomas
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7.

Abstract

FrostWall is designed to support collegial communication and collaboration within a co-located work environment by facilitating and encouraging informal information exchange in the corridors of a workplace using large situated displays. FrostWall displays provide a flexible display area between the inside of a private office workspace and the public corridor outside it. FrostWall uses "frosting" of glass windows and partitions between private and public workspaces in combination with projectors to create a display area that is effectively dual-sided: readable and operable from both sides. In addition to facilitating informal digital communication and information exchange between co-workers, this situated display area also provides a venue for playfulness and personal expression enhancing social cohesion between colleagues. FrostWall is also a unique vehicle for future research into interaction design for dual-sided interfaces.

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Citation

Kjeldskov, J., Paay, J., O'Hara, K., Smith, R., & Thomas, B. (2009). Frostwall: a dual-sided situated display for informal collaboration in the corridor. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7 (pp. 369–372). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/1738826.1738900, doi:10.1145/1738826.1738900

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/1738826.1738900,
author = {Kjeldskov, Jesper and Paay, Jeni and O'Hara, Kenton and Smith, Ross and Thomas, Bruce},
title = {FrostWall: a dual-sided situated display for informal collaboration in the corridor},
year = {2009},
isbn = {9781605588544},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/1738826.1738900},
doi = {10.1145/1738826.1738900},
abstract = {FrostWall is designed to support collegial communication and collaboration within a co-located work environment by facilitating and encouraging informal information exchange in the corridors of a workplace using large situated displays. FrostWall displays provide a flexible display area between the inside of a private office workspace and the public corridor outside it. FrostWall uses "frosting" of glass windows and partitions between private and public workspaces in combination with projectors to create a display area that is effectively dual-sided: readable and operable from both sides. In addition to facilitating informal digital communication and information exchange between co-workers, this situated display area also provides a venue for playfulness and personal expression enhancing social cohesion between colleagues. FrostWall is also a unique vehicle for future research into interaction design for dual-sided interfaces.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7},
pages = {369–372},
numpages = {4},
keywords = {dual-sided interface, informal collaboration, situated display, ubiquitous computing},
location = {Melbourne, Australia},
series = {OZCHI '09}
}