Facet-Streams: Collaborative Hotel Search on a Microsoft Surface (2011)

Update (23.03.2011): We have just been informed, that "Facet-Streams" has been selected as one of the top 5% of papers and notes at CHI 2011 and received an "honorable mention" award. Let me use this opportunity to thank our collaborators and all involved students again for their part in this great outcome. We feel proud and honored to be highlighted so prominently at CHI 2011!
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Facet-Streams is a prototype application for the Microsoft Surface tabletop computer. The application enables a group of users (e.g. a family) to simultaneously search hotels in the hotel data of HolidayCheck (http://www.holidaycheck.com) and to agree on a holiday destination. Users can use multitouch and glass tokens to enter their individual preferences into the application.

"Facet-Streams" was designed and implemented by Hans-Christian Jetter, Jens Gerken und Michael Zöllner at the Human-Computer Interaction Group of Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer at the University of Konstanz http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/ and will be published in cooperation with Natasa Milic-Frayling of the Integrated Systems Group of Microsoft Research Cambridge http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/is/ at the renowned ACM SIGCHI conference in Vancouver in May 2011.

We thank HolidayCheck.com for their data and technical support throughout the project!




„Facet-Streams" ist ein Anwendungsprototyp für den Microsoft Surface Multitouch-Tisch. Die Anwendung erlaubt es mehreren Benutzern (z.B. einer Familie) gleichzeitig in den Hoteldaten von HolidayCheck (http://www.holidaycheck.com) nach Hotels zu suchen und sich auf ein gemeinsames Urlaubsziel zu einigen. Die Anwendung verwendet neben Multitouch auch Spielsteine aus Glas, damit die Benutzer ihre individuellen Vorlieben eingeben können.

„Facet-Streams" wurde von Hans-Christian Jetter, Jens Gerken und Michael Zöllner von der AG Mensch-Computer-Interaktion von Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer an der Universität Konstanz entworfen und programmiert (http://hci.uni-konstanz.de) und wird im Mai 2011 gemeinsam mit Natasa Milic-Frayling von der Integrated Systems Group von Microsoft Research Cambridge http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/is/ auf der renommierten ACM SIGCHI Konferenz in Vancouver im Mai 2011 veröffentlicht.

Wir danken HolidayCheck.com für die Daten und den technischen Support während des Projektes!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• human-computer interaction
• interaction design
• user interface design
• microsoft surface
• tangible user interface
• tabletop
• multitouch
• collaboration
• faceted search
• faceted navigation
• chi
• tokens
• hybrid surfaces
• microsoft research
• university of konstanz
• holidaycheck
• group search
• surface
• chi 2011
• hotel
• holiday
• information engineering
• user experience

[SeraphBen]

Some really interesting ideas here. I love the idea of filter 'streams' and combining them dynamically. I feel like there are some UX issues with displaying results under all those tokens, but that could solved in a number of ways. Do you have any future plans for this prototype?

[HCiKonstanz]

@SeraphBen great that you like the tangible 'streams' metaphor. that was really the focus of the design and users really loved it during user studies. however, as you assumed, we have also observed some UX issues with the results, but there is indeed a number of ways to solve this. right now, our future plan is to refine and extend the design for further research and publications and to use it in other application domains. but we are very open for any good ideas for the future of this.... :)

[Sic1102]

haha ihr seid deutsche oder?

[LPLOL1]

i want one