ProtoTeams: Supporting Small Group Interactions in Co-Located Crowds

Umbelino, Gustavo; Ta, Vivian; Blake, Samuel; Truong, Eric; Luo, Amy; Dow, Steven P.

doi:10.1145/3311957.3359505

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“…Scholars within the HCI community have convened workshops [2,25,45,62] calling for research that focuses explicitly on the role and potential of technology in co-located interactions. In parallel, research has advanced technology that supports co-located social interaction by adding tangible gestural interfaces to existing colocated games to enhance play [24], improving gestural interaction during co-located interactions with augmented reality through the use of specific visual cues [14], facilitating icebreaker activities [34], and fostering rapport among people who are already physically together in settings ranging from partner intimacy [76] to gatherings of large crowds [74]. A recent (2019) literature review [50] advocated a shift in mentality from designing to enable co-located interaction to designing to enhance it: rather than existing in tandem with or simply functionally supporting conversation, collaboration, or other forms of face-to-face interaction, technologies designed for co-location can play "an active role in deliberately attempting to improve its quality, value or extent.…”

Section: Related Work 21 From "Alone Together" To "Together Together"...mentioning

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Supporting Piggybacked Co-Located Leisure Activities via Augmented Reality

Reig

Cruz

Powers

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Technology, especially the smartphone, is villainized for taking meaning and time away from in-person interactions and secluding people into "digital bubbles". We believe this is not an intrinsic property of digital gadgets, but evidence of a lack of imagination in technology design. Leveraging augmented reality (AR) toward this end allows us to create experiences for multiple people, their pets, and their environments. In this work, we explore the design of AR technology that "piggybacks" on everyday leisure to foster co-located interactions among close ties (with other people and pets). We designed, developed, and deployed three such AR applications, and evaluated them through a 41-participant and 19-pet user study. We gained key insights about the ability of AR to spur and enrich interaction in new channels, the importance of customization, and the challenges of designing for the physical aspects of AR devices (e.g., holding smartphones). These insights guide design implications for the novel research space of co-located AR.

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Section: Related Work 21 From "Alone Together" To "Together Together"...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting Piggybacked Co-Located Leisure Activities via Augmented Reality

Reig

Cruz

Powers

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Co-located Collaboration Analysis Based on Group Traces

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Qiao³

et al. 2022

2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD)

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Umbelino

Yarmand

Blake

et al. 2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Team dating, or small-group interactions, can expose people to diverse perspectives and inform the potential for longer-term collaboration. However, rapidly configuring groups and facilitating interactions among strangers can be difficult, especially in co-located settings. We present ProtoTeams, a system that leverages personal mobile devices to support rapid group formation, to facilitate group activities, and to collect data about the potential for future collaboration. We report on a field study where 406 students in eight different project-based classes used ProtoTeams to interact with classmates through multiple rounds of brief discussion activities before selecting teammates for a term project. We found that the system enables groups to form in about one minute, allows for meaningful interactions with a diverse range of peers, and can significantly influence subsequent teammate selection. We discuss design implications and challenges for in-person team dating in classrooms and other contexts.

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ProtoTeams: Supporting Small Group Interactions in Co-Located Crowds

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Supporting Piggybacked Co-Located Leisure Activities via Augmented Reality

Supporting Piggybacked Co-Located Leisure Activities via Augmented Reality

Co-located Collaboration Analysis Based on Group Traces

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