Two paper presentations at C&T 2025
Frederik Hirschmann and Thomas Neumayr attended the International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T) in Siegen, Germany to present two papers and engage with other researchers in the field.
Frederik presented Come Browse with Me: Interaction Patterns in Remote Collaborative Web Browsing. We conducted a user study on collaborative web browsing, in which remote teams were tasked to plan a trip together; once with regular conferencing software and once with the additional support of a prototypical browser extension which provided awareness, annotation and coordination mechanisms (such as remote pointers) to all participants. The paper discusses how collaboration changed with the additional workspace awareness, emergent interaction patterns and its implications on remote and hybrid collaboration in general.
Thomas presented An Exploratory Study of Collaborative Decision Making in Hybrid Teams, in which an in-depth investigation of the decision making behavior in two hybrid teams was studied along the three phases "Intelligence", "Design", and "Choice" of Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon's Model of Decision Making. The two analytical lenses Collaborative Coupling and Territoriality, which we had already extended in the past, were applied to derive several practical implications for the design of future decision support systems.
Our colleagues had a great time in Siegen, with many rewarding and inspiring discussions, interesting talks and demonstrations, as well as a fun social program (like playing foosball at the Fablab)!