Brennan Jones
Anna Witcraft
ABSTRACT
Mobile video conferencing, where one or more participants are moving about in the real world, enables entirely new interaction scenarios (e.g., asking for help to construct or repair an object, or showing a physical location). While we have a good understanding of the challenges of video conferencing in office or home environments, we do not fully understand the mechanics of camera work-how people use mobile devices to communicate with one another-during mobile video calls. To provide an understanding of what people do in mobile video collaboration, we conducted an observational study where pairs of participants completed tasks using a mobile video conferencing system. Our analysis suggests that people use the camera view deliberately to support their interactions-for example, to convey a message or to ask questions-but the limited field of view, and the lack of camera control can make it a frustrating experience.
Supplemental Material
- Brubacker, J. et al. (2012). Focusing on Shared Experiences Moving Beyond the Camera in Video Communication. In Proc. DIS 2012, 96--105. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Clark, H.H., and Marshall, C.R. (1981). Definite reference and mutual knowledge. In Elements of Discourse Understanding, 10--63.Google Scholar
- Fussell, S.R. et al. (2003). Effects of Head-Mounted and Scene-Oriented Video Systems on Remote Collaboration on Physical Tasks. In Proc. CHI 2003, 513--520. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Fussell, S.R. et al. (2003). Where do Helpers Look?: Gaze Targets During Collaborative Physical Tasks. In EA CHI 2003, 768--769. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Fussell, S.R. et al. (2003). Assessing the Value of a Cursor Pointing Device for Remote Collaboration on Physical Tasks. In EA CHI 2003, 788--789. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Fussell, S.R. et al. (2004). Gestures Over Video Streams to Support Remote Collaboration on Physical Tasks. HCI 19(3), 273--309. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Gauglitz, S. et al. (2012). Integrating the Physical Environment into Mobile Remote Collaboration. In Proc. MobileHCI 2012, 241--250. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Gauglitz, S. et al. (2014). World-Stabilized Annotations and Virtual Scene Navigation for Remote Collaboration. In Proc. UIST 2014, 449--459. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Gaver, W.W. et al. (1993). One is not enough: multiple views in a media space. In Proc. CHI 1993, 335--341. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Gergle, D. et al. (2004). Action as Language in a Shared Visual Space. In Proc. CSCW 2004, 487--496. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Gutwin, C., and Penner, R. (2002). Improving Interpretation of Remote Gestures with Telepointer Traces. In Proc. CSCW 2002, 49--57. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Inkpen, K. et al. (2013). Experiences2Go: Sharing Kids'Activities Outside the Home with Remote Family Members. In Proc. CSCW 2013, 1329--1340. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Jordan, B., and Henderson, A. (1995). Interaction Analysis: Foundations and Practice. Journal of the Learning Sciences 4 (1), 39--103.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Judge, T.K., and Neustaedter, C. (2010). Sharing Conversation and Sharing Life: Video Conferencing in the Home. In Proc. CHI 2010, 655--658. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Judge, T.K. et al. (2011). Family Portals: Connecting Families Through a Multifamily Media Space. In Proc. CHI 2011, 1205--1214. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kasahara, S., and Rekimoto, J. (2014). JackIn: Integrating First-Person View with Out-of-Body Vision Generation for Human-Human Augmentation. In Proc. AH 2014. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kirk, D., and Fraser, D.S. (2006). Comparing Remote Gesture Technologies for Supporting Collaborative Physical Tasks. In Proc. CHI 2006, 1191--1200. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kirk, D. S. et al. (2005). Ways of the Hands. In Proc. ECSCW 2005, 1--21. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kirk, D. et al. (2007). Turn It This Way: Grounding Collaborative Action with Remote Gestures. In Proc. CHI 2007, 1039--1048. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kirk, D. et al. (2010). Home Video Communication: Mediating 'Closeness'. In Proc. CSCW 2010, 135--144. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kraut, R.E. et al. (2003). Visual Information as a Conversational Resource in Collaborative Physical Tasks. HCI 18 (1), 13--49. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kuzuoka, H. (1992). Spatial workspace collaboration: a SharedView video support system for remote collaboration capability. In Proc. CHI 1992, 533--540. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Licoppe, C., and Morel, J. (2009). The Collaborative Work of Producing Meaningful Shots in Mobile Video Telephony. In Proc. MobileHCI 2009, 254--263. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Mann, S. (2000). Telepointer: Hands-free completely self-contained wearable visual augmented reality without headwear and without any infrastructural reliance. In Proc. ISWC 2000, 177--178. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Norris, J. et al. (2012). CamBlend: An Object Focused Collaboration Tool. In Proc. CHI 2012, 627--636. Google ScholarDigital Library
- O'Hara, K. et al. (2006). Everyday Practices with Mobile Video Telephony. In Proc. CHI 2006, 871--880. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Ou, J. et al. (2003). DOVE: Drawing over Video Environment. In Proc. MULTIMEDIA 2003, 100--101. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Procyk, J. et al. (2014). Exploring video streaming in public settings: shared geocaching over distance using mobile video chat. In Proc. CHI 2014, 2163--2172. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Raffle, H. et al. (2010). Family Story Play: Reading with Young Children (and Elmo) Over a Distance. In Proc. CHI 2010, 1583--1592. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Sakata, N. et al. (2003). WACL: Supporting Telecommunications Using Wearable Active Camera with Laser Pointer. In Proc. ISWC 2003, 53--56. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Sodhi, R.S. et al. (2013). BeThere: 3D Mobile Collaboration with Spatial Input. In Proc. CHI 2013, 179--188. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Tang, J.C. et al. (2013). HomeProxy: Exploring a Physical Proxy for Video Communication in the Home. In Proc. CHI 2013, 1339--1342. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Virtual Photo Walks. http://www.virtualphotowalks.org.Google Scholar
- Yarosh, S. et al. (2010). Video playdate: toward free play across distance. In Proc. CHI 2010, 1251--1260. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Mechanics of Camera Work in Mobile Video Collaboration
Recommendations
Elevating Communication, Collaboration, and Shared Experiences in Mobile Video through Drones
DIS '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive SystemsPeople are increasingly using mobile video to communicate, collaborate, and share experiences while on the go. Yet this presents challenges in adequately sharing camera views with remote users. In this paper, we study the use of semi-autonomous drones ...
Towards Proxemic Mobile Collocated Interactions
Research on mobile collocated interactions has been exploring situations where collocated users engage in collaborative activities using their personal mobile devices e.g., smartphones and tablets, thus going from personal/individual toward shared/...
Interaction techniques for mobile collocation
MobileHCI '16: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services AdjunctResearch on mobile collocated interactions has been exploring situations where collocated users engage in collaborative activities using their personal mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets), thus going from personal/individual toward shared/...
Comments