Supporting Team Coordination on the Ground: Requirements from a Mixed Reality Game

Fischer, Joel E.; Jiang, Wenchao; Kerne, Andruid; Greenhalgh, Chris; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.; Reece, Steven; Pantidi, Nadia; Rodden, Tom

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06498-7_4

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“…Various physical and social contexts of use were investigated including teamwork at the office [2], sharing media content at home [3] and outdoors [1], public expression in a theme park [5] and in a pub [3,6], location-based mobile disaster response games [7], and sharing educational stories in rural, developing-world contexts [8].…”

Section: Mobile Collocated Interactions: Origins Of the Fieldmentioning

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Mobile collocated interactions with wearables: past, present, and future

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This Special Issue focuses on the emerging use of wearable technologies for mobile collocated interactions. Rather than merely listing off the articles that follow, we wish to introduce this Special Issue by discussing the past, present, and future of this field in HCI through its theories, ongoing designs and research efforts, and emerging frameworks. We conclude by providing an overview of a series of workshops on the topic, and introduce the two main articles that comprise this Special Issue. Mobile collocated interactions: origins of the fieldMobile devices such as smartphones and tablets were originally conceived and have traditionally been utilized for individual use. Over the last decade, research on mobile collocated interactions [1-4] has explored situations in which collocated users engage in collaborative activities using their mobile devices, thus going from personal/individual toward shared/multiuser experiences and interactions.Early research in this field frequently encouraged people to share their devices to create a collective experience or reach a common goal. Various physical and social contexts of use were investigated including teamwork at the office [2], sharing media content at home [3] and outdoors [1], public expression in a theme park [5] and in a pub [3,6], location-based mobile disaster response games [7], and sharing educational stories in rural, developing-world contexts [8].The investigation of mobile collocated interactions began almost a decade ago when work in engineering platforms that allow designers to easily create applications for mobile groups began to emerge around 2007/2008 [2, 9, 10]. Hardware and sensing innovations coupled with the smartphone revolution and researchers' newfound ability to design, build, and deploy mobile applications provided an opportunity for HCI researchers to begin to prototype mobile collaborative group experiences. Additionally, some researchers had earlier focused on how general groupware issues such as ad-hoc group formation and floor control policies are impacted by the switch from standard group-use hardware, such as tabletop displays or interactive whiteboards, to a collection of mobile devices [11,12]. More recently researchers have looked into simple ways to bind devices together in the context of mobile collocated interactions [13,14]. The gaming community also showed interest in understanding and designing for the

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Section: Mobile Collocated Interactions: Origins Of the Fieldmentioning

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Mobile collocated interactions with wearables: past, present, and future

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“…Research around these experiences often reports on issues relevant to the CSCW community, such as 'live' orchestration from a control room [13], collaboration between people on the ground and online [18], and giving and following instructions in teams [50,44]. Some of these experiences may also have an educational character [51], or they may be classified as a 'serious' game, for example to study team coordination in a disaster response scenario [17].…”

Section: Mobile Collocated Experiencesmentioning

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Designing Mobile Experiences for Collocated Interaction

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Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing

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Many of our everyday social interactions involve mobile devices. Yet, these tend to only provide good support for distributed social interactions. Although much HCI and CSCW research has explored how we might support collocated, face-to-face situations using mobile devices, much of this work exists as isolated exemplars of technical systems or interaction designs. This paper draws on a range of such exemplars to develop a practical design framework intended for guiding the design of new mobile experiences for collocated interaction as well as analysing existing ones. Our framework provides four relational perspectives for designing the complex interplay between: the social situation in which it takes place; the technology used and the mechanics inscribed; the physical environment; and the temporal elements of design. Moreover, each perspective features some core properties, which are highly relevant when designing these systems. As part of presenting the framework we also explain the process of its construction along with practical advice on how to read and apply it.

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“…To combat this, in our study, we adopt a serious mixed-reality game approach to provide a setting in which people experience realistic cognitive and physical stress [18]. Mixed-reality games are recreational experiences that make use of pervasive technologies such as smart phones, wireless technologies and sensors with the aim of blending game events into a real world environment [5].…”

Section: Disaster Simulation and Gamesmentioning

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Human–agent collaboration for disaster response

Ramchurn

Jiang

et al. 2015

Auton Agent Multi-Agent Syst

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In the aftermath of major disasters, first responders are typically overwhelmed with large numbers of, spatially distributed, search and rescue tasks, each with their own requirements. Moreover, responders have to operate in highly uncertain and dynamic environments where new tasks may appear and hazards may be spreading across the disaster space. Hence, rescue missions may need to be re-planned as new information comes in, tasks are completed, or new hazards are discovered. Finding an optimal allocation of resources to complete all the tasks is a major computational challenge. In this paper, we use decision theoretic techniques to solve the task allocation problem posed by emergency response planning and then deploy our solution as part of an agent-based planning tool in real-world field trials. By so doing, we are able to study the interactional issues that arise when humans are guided by an agent. Specifically, we develop an algorithm, based on a multi-agent Markov decision process representation of the task allocation problem and show that it outperforms standard baseline solutions. We then integrate the algorithm into a planning agent that responds to requests for tasks from participants in a mixed-reality location-based game, called AtomicOrchid, that simulates disaster response settings in the real-world. We then run a number of trials of our planning agent and compare it against a purely human driven system. Our analysis of these trials show that human commanders adapt to the planning agent by taking on a more supervisory role and that, by providing humans with the flexibility of requesting plans from the agent, allows them to perform more tasks more efficiently than using purely human interactions to allocate tasks. We also discuss how such flexibility could lead to poor performance if left unchecked.

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Supporting Team Coordination on the Ground: Requirements from a Mixed Reality Game

Cited by 21 publications

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Mobile collocated interactions with wearables: past, present, and future

Mobile collocated interactions with wearables: past, present, and future

Designing Mobile Experiences for Collocated Interaction

Human–agent collaboration for disaster response

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