Doshi Vishal, Tuteja Sneha, Bharadwaj Krishna, Tantillo Davide, Marrinan Thomas, Patton James, Marai G Elisabeta
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.
Pervasive Disp 2017 (2017). 2017 Jun;2017. doi: 10.1145/3078810.3078817.
Scheduling conferences is a common task in both research and industry, which requires relatively small groups to collaborate and negotiate in order to solve an often-large logistical problem with many nuances. For large conferences, the process can take days and it is traditionally a manual procedure performed using physical tools such as whiteboards and sticky notes. We present the design and implementation of StickySchedule, a multi-user application for use on interactive large-scale shared displays to better enable groups to organize large conference-scheduling data. To evaluate our tool, we present observations from novice users, and authentic use cases with expert feedback from organizers who are heavily involved in large conference scheduling. The main contributions of our work are documenting the collaborative and competitive aspects of conference scheduling, creating a tool that incorporates successful features and addresses identified issues with prior works, and verifying the usefulness of our tool by observing and discussing a variety of use cases, in both collocated and remote-distributed settings.
安排会议在研究和行业领域都是一项常见任务，这需要相对较小的团队进行协作和协商，以解决一个往往包含许多细微差别且规模较大的后勤问题。对于大型会议而言，这个过程可能需要数天时间，而且传统上是使用白板和便利贴等实物工具进行的手动操作流程。我们展示了StickySchedule的设计与实现，这是一款用于交互式大型共享显示屏的多用户应用程序，能更好地帮助团队整理大型会议安排数据。为了评估我们的工具，我们展示了新手用户的观察结果，以及来自深度参与大型会议安排的组织者的专家反馈的真实用例。我们工作的主要贡献在于记录会议安排的协作和竞争方面，创建一个融合了成功功能并解决了先前工作中已发现问题的工具，以及通过观察和讨论各种在同地协作和远程分布式环境下的用例来验证我们工具的实用性。
