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Traces: Studying a Public Reactive Floor-Projection of Walking Trajectories to Support Social Awareness

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Beatrice Monastero,

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CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper No.: 487, Pages 1 - 13

https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174061

Published: 21 April 2018 Publication History

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Walking trajectories have been used to understand how users interact with public displays. However, it has not yet been studied how displaying them in-situ could affect users' awareness about others' presence and activities. We present the study of an interactive public floor-projection called Traces. Traces projects the walking trajectories of individuals as they pass through the lobby of a university building. We investigated Traces through a 6 week in-field study. Our results outline how different uses and understandings of Traces contributed towards its appropriation as a glanceable display for social awareness. We outline design suggestions that future designers should consider to support social awareness with public displays.

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1. Human-centered computing
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2. Information systems
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