Interaction Archetypes in Global Teamwork (Arche)
From The Theme CONTEXTUAL FUTURES FOR SMART PERSONAL DEVICES WHAT IF? What if ubiquitous wearable sensors and smart devices could be leveraged to augment global team interaction, improve team dynamics, and unlock new team potential? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We proposed Arche, a concept-proving project aimed at uncovering interaction archetypes in global teamwork […]
Enabling Impromptu Interaction Through a Robotic Water Cooler
From The Theme CONTEXTUAL FUTURES FOR SMART PERSONAL DEVICES WHAT IF? What if we could leverage smart personal devices, and their communicative abilities, to encourage coworkers to interact with each other? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to develop a personal, robot interaction platform that, through its movement and behavior, triggers individuals […]
TweakCorps: Re-targeting Existing Webpages for Diverse Devices and Users
From The Theme PUBLISH ON DEMAND WHAT IF What if there were a machine learning algorithm that could identify and label design elements of web pages? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We focused on one popular class of semantic identifiers – those concerned with the structure (information architecture) of a page. Across webpages, there […]
Using Video Game Platforms to Understand Thinking Styles of People Engaged in Collaboration
From The Theme KNOWLEDGE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if we could automatically detect how well members of a group are “synching” on a collaborative project? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to better understand correlations between degrees of group “sync” in collaborative projects on one hand, and team creativity and productivity […]