An Analysis of User Behavior on High-Resolution Tiled Displays

You can read the paper that was published at Interact '05 here. Due to an oversight, I used the wrong template when I submitted my paper to Interact '05 initially. After being accepted the publisher pointed out that the margins were wrong. When I corrected my mistake I realized that I had 7 pages too many! The official Interact '05 paper is reduced down to fourteen pages and conforms to their standard template. However, you can read the original paper here.

Abstract:
The use of multiple monitors for personal desktop computing is becoming more prevalent as the price of display technology decreases. The use of two monitors for a single desktop has been shown to have performance improvement in several studies. However, few studies have been performed with more than three monitors. As a result, we report an observational analysis of the use of a large tiled display containing nine monitors (in a 3x3 matrix). The total resolution of the large display is 3840x3072, for a total of 11,796,480 pixels. Over the course of six months we observed the behavior and actions of five users who used the display extensively as a desktop. We relate our observations, provide feedback concerning common usage of how people do and do not use the display, provide common scenarios and results of interviews, and give a series of design recommendations and guidelines for future designers of applications for high-resolution, tiled displays

The slides that I presented at Interact '05 in Rome can be found here.

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