Mixed-focus collaboration activities for designing mobile interactions
Romina Kühn, Thomas K. Schlegel · 2018
Collaboration is essential in both the working and the learning context. Although there is a wide range of collaboration tools and technology, they mostly focus on one specific application and thus are seldom reusable for other domains. To provide reusable solutions, it seems to be reasonable to develop not for one explicit application but for recurring activities that collaborators perform. We identified typical collaborative activities in mixed-focus collaboration, e.g., creating content or presenting results, which we derived from literature survey, observation and existing tools. Collaboration activities aim to classify solutions and enable designers and developers to reuse them for other scenarios. We illustrate this approach with mobile interaction techniques for two collaboration activities. The presented interactions address collaborative comparing and sharing and are applicable for various scenarios. This approach extends other collaboration processes to focus on recurring activities and improve reusability of tools.