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Mechanisms for Collaboration: A Design and Evaluation Framework for Multi-User Interfaces

<21> This work, which appears in the top HCI journal was a strong contributor to Professor Rogers' election to the CHI academy in 2012. The paper presents a new theoretical framework that predicts and explains which mechanisms, drawn from HCI and developmental psychology, influence group behaviour when designing collaborative, multi-touch interfaces. It challenges the popular notion that interaction using multi-user interfaces is necessarily ‘natural’ and outlines an alternative approach, showing how key constraining dimensions should be manipulated to design effective interfaces. It has been used by other researchers to design a range of educational technologies, including interfaces for autistic children.