Achieving Non-Intrusive Environments for Local Collaboration

Abstract

Abstract. The way people use computing artefacts in local collaborative settings is problematic. The main reason for this is that the tools that are being used to a large extent are designed as personal tools. Constant intrusions on the collaborative task are imposed from lacking support for collaboration, external non-related events, parallel non-related work and the breaking of different kinds of social norms. In an attempt to deal with one of these issues, the external events, a test bed environment for non-intrusive notifications was created. This environment consists of both hardware and software components and makes it possible to deliver short messages in different modalities, on public or private displays, and with different renderings.