DUI 2012 - 2nd Workshop on Distributed User Interfaces: Collaboration and Usability

Distributed User Interfaces (DUIs) have recently become a new field of research and development in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The DUIs have brought about drastic changes affecting the way interactive systems are conceived. DUIs have gone beyond the fact that user interfaces are controlled by a single end user on the same computing platform in the same environment.
Traditional interaction is focused on the use of mobile devices such as, smartphones, tablets, laptops, and so on, tearing apart other environmental interaction resources such as large screens and multi-tactile displays, or tables. Under a collaborative scenario, users sharing common goals may take advantage of DUIs to carry out their tasks because they provide a shared environment where they are allowed to manipulate information in the same space at the same time. Under this hypothesis, collaborative DUIs scenarios open new challenges to usability evaluation techniques and methods.
Thus, the goal of this workshop is to promote the discussion about the emerging topic of DUIs, answering a set of key questions: how collaboration can be improved by using DUI? , in which situations a DUI is suitable to ease the collaboration among users?, how usability standards can be employed to evaluate the usability of systems based on DUIs?
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Conceptual models for DUIs
DUIs on ubiquitous environments
Distributed User Interface design
Public display interaction and DUIs
DUIs and coupled displays
DUIs and ambient intelligence
Human factors in DUIs design
Collaboration and DUIs
Usability evaluation in DUIs
DUIs on learning environment