Designing Outdoor Remote-Communication Tools for Serious Collaborative Activities

Jones, B., Tang, A., and Neustaedter, C. (2018). Designing Outdoor Remote-Communication Tools for Serious Collaborative Activities. In HCI Outdoors: Understanding Human-Computer Interaction in the Outdoors - Workshop at CHI 2018.

Abstract

We are seeing increasingly widespread usage of remote communication, and in particular video communication, for outdoor activities such as tours, shopping, and searching large environments. However, current technologies still do not provide sufficient awareness to remote communicators or sufficient means for them to indicate their intents or contribute to collaborative activities meaningfully. We describe some of the work that we have done in the past to study the challenges that people face in remote communication in the outdoors, and to design technology solutions that aim to address those challenges. We also describe our current work to address such challenges in the domain of wilderness search and rescue (SAR).

Materials

PDF File (http://hcitang.org/papers/2018-chi2018workshop-serious-collaborative-activities.pdf)
URL (http://hcioutdoors.net/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{jones2018seriouscollaboration,
  year = {2018},
  url = {http://hcioutdoors.net/},
  type = {workshop},
  title = {Designing Outdoor Remote-Communication Tools for Serious Collaborative Activities},
  pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2018-chi2018workshop-serious-collaborative-activities.pdf},
  editor = {Michael Jones and Zann Anderson and Joanna Hakkila and Keith Cheverst and Florian Daiber},
  booktitle = {HCI Outdoors: Understanding Human-Computer Interaction in the Outdoors - Workshop at CHI 2018},
  author = {Jones, Brennan and Tang, Anthony and Neustaedter, Carman},
  abstract = {We are seeing increasingly widespread usage of remote communication, and in particular video communication, for outdoor activities such as tours, shopping, and searching large environments. However, current technologies still do not provide sufficient awareness to remote communicators or sufficient means for them to indicate their intents or contribute to collaborative activities meaningfully. We describe some of the work that we have done in the past to study the challenges that people face in remote communication in the outdoors, and to design technology solutions that aim to address those challenges. We also describe our current work to address such challenges in the domain of wilderness search and rescue (SAR).},
}