The Impact of Display-rich Environments for Enhancing Task Parallelism and Group Awareness in Advanced Collaboration Environments

The Continuum is a display-rich project room that allows distributed researchers to work together in intensive collaborative campaigns. In this paper, we describe iterative design study of using Continuum’s display technologies to support enhanced task parallelism and group awareness. The study involves placing small groups of users in two Continuum spaces connected over a high-speed network and asking them to perform a variety of information discovery and knowledge crystallization tasks, while varying the technology configurations. The goal of this study is to explore the design issues for enhancing cooperative work in display-rich