On the Move Collaborative Environments: Augmenting Face to Face Informal Collaboration in Hospitals

David A. Mejia, A. Morán, J. Favela, M. Tentori, Antoine Markarian, Luís A. Castro
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Previous research in CSCW has highlighted the importance of proximity in informal interactions. Nowadays, most current tools aimed at supporting informal interactions are focused on providing artificial proximity in traditional office environments in which workers spend most of their time "behind their desk." However, in other working environments, such as hospitals, users experience a high level of mobility that enables them to establish co-located interactions in order to collaborate and coordinate their activities with colleagues, involving the exchange and analysis of documents distributed in space or time. These forms of interaction pose new challenges for the design of pervasive computing environments aimed at providing collaboration support as people work on-the-move, seamlessly integrating heterogeneous resources and devices scattered around the premises. In order to address these concerns, we proposed and developed the concept of On-the-move Collaborative Environments (OCEs), a design concept integrating an ensemble of specialized services to provide support for informal interaction for mobile work. Further, we informed OCE's conceptualization with insights obtained from a workplace study conducted in a hospital, and from projections of envisioned support identified by means of scenarios of use. To exemplify the design principles proposed, we designed and implemented SOLAR, an OCE system aimed at supporting co-located collaboration, proximity-based application-sharing, and the remote control of heterogeneous devices.
移动协作环境:增强医院面对面非正式协作
以前关于CSCW的研究强调了非正式互动中接近的重要性。如今,大多数旨在支持非正式互动的工具都专注于在传统的办公环境中提供人工接近,在这种环境中,员工大部分时间都花在“办公桌后面”。然而,在医院等其他工作环境中,用户体验到高度的移动性,这使他们能够建立在同一地点的互动,以便与同事协作和协调他们的活动,包括交换和分析在空间或时间上分布的文件。这些形式的交互对普适计算环境的设计提出了新的挑战,普适计算环境旨在为人们在移动中工作时提供协作支持,无缝地集成分散在办公场所周围的异构资源和设备。为了解决这些问题,我们提出并发展了移动协作环境(OCEs)的概念,这是一个设计概念,集成了一系列专门的服务,为移动工作的非正式交互提供支持。此外,我们根据在医院进行的工作场所研究以及通过使用情景确定的预期支持预测获得的见解,为OCE的概念化提供了信息。为了举例说明所提出的设计原则,我们设计并实现了SOLAR,这是一个OCE系统,旨在支持同地协作、基于邻近的应用程序共享和异构设备的远程控制。
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