A Toolkit for Evaluating Peripheral Awareness Displays
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چکیده
Peripheral displays are an important application for enabling people to be constantly aware of information while doing other activities. How does one evaluate a peripheral awareness display to determine if it provides awareness without distracting the user inappropriately from other tasks? We explore evaluation metrics for peripheral displays and describe proposed support to be added to an existing toolkit for creating peripheral display prototypes.
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