Peek-At-You: An Awareness, Navigation, and View Sharing System for Remote Collaborative Content Creation

Matthew K Miller, Frederik Brudy, Tovi Grossman, George W. Fitzmaurice, Fraser Anderson

Keywords: Groupwork, Remote Collaboration, Content Creation

Abstract: Remote work plays a critical and growing role in modern workplaces. A particular challenge for remote workers is mixed-focus collaboration, which involves frequent switching between individual and group tasks while maintaining awareness of others’ activities. Mixed focus collaboration is important in content creation as it can benefit from the greater perspective, larger skill set, and reduced bias of a group, but this work is difficult to do remotely because existing systems only provide information about collaborators passively or through cumbersome interactions. In this paper, we present Peek-at-You, a system of collaborative features leveraging integration between collaboration and communication software, including conversational position indicators, speaker’s view peeking, and view pushing. Our evaluation shows these features help support awareness, understanding, and working state transitions. Finally, we discuss adapting the features to manage distractions and support various work artifacts.

Track: HCI/visualization

Revision: No

Revision Reviewers: No opinion

Summary Of Changes:

Thank you to all the reviewers for their feedback!
We've made additions in sections 7.5 and 8 to point out the limitations raised in review, in particular in regards to using tools that do now support Peek-At-You like integration with video calls as part of an overall collaborative project. We emphasized that standard methods of integrating video calling and collaborative software can also help in this regard.