Making the office catch up: exploring interaction qualities at home and at work

The rapid development of information technology (IT) in the past decade has enabled the introduction of a number of highly engaging tools into everyday life, such as instant messaging, podcasting, blogging, and social networking. Office applications have increased sometimes dramatically in functionality over the years, but the ways of interacting with all these functionalities have evolved much more slowly. An interesting challenge therefore presents itself to developers, designers, and researchers: how to bring the richness of the interactions that people currently experience in the private context of their homes and friends into the more formal context of their offices and colleagues. potentially rich interactions. The authors believed that the potential to associate a specific group of office workers with interaction qualities could enable the development of future office tools and applications. With this in mind, they explored interaction qualities currently experienced in the home and work contexts. Comparing the interaction qualities offered a rich source of experiences, anecdotes, and routines on ways of interacting in home and work contexts.