Everyday peripheral tasks vs. digital peripheral tasks

Abstract

Peripheral interaction is very common in everyday interaction with the physical world. We seemingly effortlessly tie our shoe laces while being fully engaged in a conversation or stir the soup on the stove while reading the recipe. Recently researchers started to build on this human capability of dividing attention and develop digital devices that also are intended to be operated in the attentional (and visual) periphery. However, evaluating to which extent a device indeed moves into the periphery is hard to assess. This work aims at investigating everyday peripheral tasks with the physical world to offer insights on their effect on computer-based work and act as comparison for digital peripheral devices.

Feeling the Temperature of the Room: Unobtrusive Thermal Display of Engagement during Group Communication

“…Research about peripheral and implicit interactions aims to reduce stress [43,50] and avoid information overflow and interruptions [6,41,62,81]. Thus, users can concentrate on their main task at hand [28,29].…”