Elevating Communication, Collaboration, and Shared Experiences in Mobile Video through Drones

Brennan Jones, Kody Dillman, Richard Tang, Anthony Tang, Ehud Sharlin, Lora Oehlberg, Carman Neustaedter, and Scott Bateman. (2016). Elevating Communication, Collaboration, and Shared Experiences in Mobile Video through Drones. In DIS 2016: Proceedings of the ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems in 2016, 1123–1135. Acceptance: 108/418 - 26%.

Abstract

People 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 for video conferencing, where an outdoor user (using a smartphone) is connected to a desktop user who can explore the environment from the drone’s perspective. We describe findings from a study where pairs collaborated to complete shared navigation and search tasks. We illustrate the benefits of providing the desktop user with a view that is elevated, manipulable, and decoupled from the outdoor user. In addition, we articulate how participants overcame challenges in communicating environmental information and navigational cues, negotiated control of the view, and used the drone as a tool for sharing experiences. This provides a new way of thinking about mobile video conferencing where cameras that are decoupled from both users play an integral role in communication, collaboration, and sharing experiences.

Materials

PDF File (http://hcitang.org/papers/2016-dis2016-mobile-video-through-drones.pdf)
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BibTeX

@inproceedings{jones2016dronevideoconferencing,
  author = {Jones, Brennan and Dillman, Kody and Tang, Richard and Tang, Anthony and Sharlin, Ehud and Oehlberg, Lora and Neustaedter, Carman and Bateman, Scott},
  booktitle = {DIS 2016: Proceedings of the ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems in 2016},
  title = {Elevating Communication, Collaboration, and Shared Experiences in Mobile Video through Drones},
  type = {conference},
  pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2016-dis2016-mobile-video-through-drones.pdf},
  url = {http://www.dis2016.org/},
  year = {2016},
  acceptance = {108/418 - 26%},
  pages = {1123-1135}
}