ClearBoardHiroshi Ishii and Minoru Kobayashi - NTT Human Interface Laboratories / 1993
ClearBoard is designed to integrate interpersonal space and shared workspace seamlessly.
A design goal of ClearBoard is to allow a pair of users to shift easily between interpersonal space and shared workspace using familiar everyday cues such as the partner’s gestures, head movements, eye contact, and gaze direction.
The key metaphor of ClearBoard design is “talking through and drawing on a big transparent glass board.” ClearBoard requires less eye and head movement to switch focus between the drawing surface and the partner’s face than is needed in either the whiteboard or the desktop environment.
We found ClearBoard provides the capability we call “gaze awareness”: the ability to monitor the direction of a partner’s gaze and thus his or her focus of attention. A ClearBoard user can tell which screen objects the partner is gazing at during a conversation more easily and precisely than is possible in an ordinary meeting environment with a whiteboard.
This project was conducted when Ishii was working for NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Japan.
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Papers
- ClearBoard: a seamless medium for shared drawing and conversation with eye contact Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems table of contents Monterey, California, United States Pages: 525 - 532 Year of Publication: 1992 ISBN:0-89791-513-5
- Integration of inter-personal space and shared workspace: ClearBoard design and experiments Computer Supported Cooperative Work archive Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work table of contents Toronto, Ontario, Canada Pages: 33 - 42 Year of Publication: 1992 ISBN:0-89791-542-9
- Integration of interpersonal space and shared workspace: ClearBoard design and experiments ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) archive Volume 11 , Issue 4 (October 1993) table of contents Pages: 349 - 375 Year of Publication: 1993 ISSN:1046-8188