Distributed display environments

INTRODUCTION The term “Distributed Display Environment” (DDE) compactly describes computer systems that present output to more than one physical display. Often DDEs allow attached input devices to treat the displays as a contiguous surface but this is not necessarily a requirement. In much previous HCI research, there are implicit or explicit assumptions that a computer system has at most one physical display attached. However, very recent research has recognized that a computer system can have more than one physical display. Research methods and foci have varied, but findings suggest that (1) continuing to define the relevant aspects of DDEs is worthwhile due to obvious and quantifiable benefits of these environments and (2) there are important aspects of interfaces that have been ignored because of an assumption of a single-display output model.

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