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Otmar Hilliges, David Kirk
Getting Sidetracked: Display Design and Occasioning Photo-Talk with the Photohelix
In Proceedings of 27th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Boston, MA, USA, April 4 - 9, 2009 (bib)

In this paper we discuss some of our recent research work designing tabletop interfaces for co-located photo sharing. We draw particular attention to a specific feature of an interface design, which we have observed over an extensive number of uses, as facilitating an under-reported but nonethe- less intriguing aspect of the photo-sharing experience namely the process of getting sidetracked. Through a series of vignettes of interaction during photo-sharing sessions we demonstrate how users of our tabletop photoware system used peripheral presentation of topically incoherent photos to artfully initiate new photo-talk sequences in on-going discourse. From this we draw implications for the design of tabletop photo applications, and for the experiential analysis of such devices.