Augmented Human-Workplace Interaction: Revisiting Email

Abstract

Augmenting humans with technology has become a common paradigm. In this study, we argue there is a particular area in the interaction between people and their workplace considering applications and services where augmentation could bring interesting perspectives and a new approach to Human-Workplace Interaction. Our study focuses on the case of email through a design and prototype implementation to investigate this paradigm. Among the challenges to be solved is the dynamic spatial visualization of long texts to enable them to be read without obstructing the field of vision. Existing approaches are assessed and compared to our design. Evaluations show promising results in the direction of extending this approach in the area of Mixed Reality Human-Service Interactions.