Evaluating the NASA MERBoard Display Ecology
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project summary

We are conducting an in-depth field evaluation of large interactive displays within a multi-display work environment used in the NASA Mars Exploration Rover (MER) missions, a complex and authentic use setting. We uncover how the role of such displays evolves in the context of other displays as tasks and collaboration practices change, as well as how tasks migrate among different displays over time. Our work has led to findings for how to evaluate the success of large interactive displays and multi-display environments, as well as design recommendations being used for design iterations of NASA collaborative displays.

publications

  • Huang, E. M., Mynatt, E. D., Trimble, J. P. (2006). "Displays in the wild: Understanding the dynamics and evolution of a display ecology." To appear in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2006). (pdf)

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