Collaborative interactions in future crisis rooms
Hans-Christian Jetter, Johannes Schöning, Roman Rädle, Harald Reiterer, Yvonne Rogers · KOPS (University of Konstanz) · 2013
In this paper, we tie together different streams of research from our institutions to present a joint vision of collaborative computer-supported interactions in future crisis rooms. We envision novel interaction and visualisation techniques for the next generation of crisis rooms that will better support collaborative search, analysis, and comparison of data during sensemaking activities. Such a sensemaking activity for example could be the production of daily situation reports. We focus on how users can benefit from device ecologies consisting of big wall displays, interactive tabletop surfaces and tangible user interfaces during such activities. Since we are researchers in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Information Visualisation (InfoVis), we combine technological aspects and human aspects in our research. For us, novel devices, sensors and visualisations are enabling technologies that, if they are designed and combined in an appropriate user-centred manner [7], can support collaborative activities to a much greater extent than desktop personal computers with