Perspective on and Re-Orientation of Physical Proxies in Object-Focused Remote Collaboration
Martin Feick, Terrance Mok, Anthony Tang, Lora Oehlberg, and Ehud Sharlin. (2018). Perspective on and Re-Orientation of Physical Proxies in Object-Focused Remote Collaboration. In CHI 2018: Proceedings of the 2018 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Paper 281. Notes: Honourable Mention Award - Top 5% of all submissions; 10 pages. Acceptance: 25.7% - 667/2595.
Abstract
Remote collaborators working together on physical objects have difficulty building a shared understanding of what each person is talking about. Conventional video chat systems are insufficient for many situations because they present a single view of the object in a flattened image. To understand how this limited perspective affects collaboration, we designed the Remote Manipulator (ReMa), which can reproduce orientation manipulations on a proxy object at a remote site. We conducted two studies with ReMa, with two main findings. First, a shared perspective is more effective and preferred compared to the opposing perspective offered by conventional video chat systems. Second, the physical proxy and video chat complement one another in a combined system: people used the physical proxy to understand objects, and used video chat to perform gestures and confirm remote actions.
Materials
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DOI (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3173574.3173855)
BibTeX
@inproceedings{feick2018rema,
author = {Feick, Martin and Mok, Terrance and Tang, Anthony and Oehlberg, Lora and Sharlin, Ehud},
booktitle = {CHI 2018: Proceedings of the 2018 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
title = {Perspective on and Re-Orientation of Physical Proxies in Object-Focused Remote Collaboration},
type = {conference},
pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2018-chi2018-rema.pdf},
videourl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2018-chi2018-rema.mp4},
url = {http://chi2018.acm.org},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3173574.3173855},
year = {2018},
pages = {Paper 281},
acceptance = {25.7% - 667/2595},
notes = {Honourable Mention Award - Top 5% of all submissions; 10 pages}
}