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Doris Hausen
Peripheral Interaction: Facilitating Interaction with Secondary Tasks
In Proceedings of the 6th International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - TEI 2012, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, February 19 - 22, 2012. 387-388.

Working with digital devices, we often do not focus on one task but switch back and forth between several tasks. Usual-ly some of these tasks are only small secondary tasks. But in contrast to the analog world, where we can carry out such tasks in the periphery of our attention (e.g., drinking a cup of tea while being engaged in a conversation), digital devic-es normally force us to switch windows, context and there-by the center of our attention independent from the magni-tude of the task. To improve multitasking with small tasks (e.g., setting the IM state) I am taking a closer look at pe-ripheral interaction, interaction that can be carried out in the periphery of our attention. Thereby I want to minimize disruption by secondary tasks, to carry out both types of tasks, primary and peripheral, more efficiently. To achieve that goal I developed a preliminary classification and se-lected several aspects to investigate in more detail.