Close vs Ranged

This visualisation shows each participant's preferred interaction method for the panel: close/grasping actions and ranged actions. Note that this only includes actions on the panel itself, as visualisations do not have an equivalent ranged interaction technique.

The aim of this visualisation was to see if there was an overall preference as to how participants interacted with the panel, be it using very direct manipulation styles, or while standing back at a distance.

There are some interesting observations here:

• Participants were fairly evenly split between their preferred interaction method, whereby some groups had a mix of participants favouring one over the other and vice versa

• However, there was a surprising amount of participants who used close interaction, as ranged pointing only requires pivoting of the wrist at the expense of potential issues with jitter

• While there were some instances of a single participant performing much more actions than their team members, such as P15 and P25, it does not appear to signify that they are in a "leadership" role as this is inconsistent across tasks for the same group

• Participants generally learned a specific interaction paradigm and stuck with it for the rest of the study. Only a few participants, P6, P12, P24, and to a small extent P14 and P18 used a mixture of both interaction types

• Two groups, G6 and G7, had tasks where some participants performed no actions, but these groups were those which favoured tightly-coupled collaboration

Code

Based on ActionData.

We perform further data wrangling to isolate the close and ranged actions, then plot it using ggplot2 (seen on this page):