Dynamic shared visual spaces: Experimenting with automatic camera control in a remote repair task

Abhishek Ranjan; Jeremy P. Birnholtz; Ravin Balakrishnan

doi:10.1145/1240624.1240802

Dynamic shared visual spaces: Experimenting with automatic camera control in a remote repair task

Abhishek Ranjan^*, Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Ravin Balakrishnan

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Communication Studies

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Abstract

We present an experimental study of automatic camera control in the performance of collaborative remote repair tasks using video-mediated communication. Twelve pairs of participants, one "helper" and one "worker," completed a series of Lego puzzle tasks using both a static camera and an automatic camera system that was guided in part by tracking the worker's hand position. Results show substantial performance benefits for the automatic system, particularly for complex tasks. The implications of these results are discussed, along with some lessons for the use of motion tracking as a driver for camera control.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007
Pages	1177-1186
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240802
State	Published - Oct 22 2007
Event	25th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: Apr 28 2007 → May 3 2007

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Other	25th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose, CA
Period	4/28/07 → 5/3/07

Keywords

Camera control
Collaboration
Computer-supported cooperative work
Empirical studies
Motion tracking
Video conferencing
Video mediated communication

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Ranjan, A., Birnholtz, J. P., & Balakrishnan, R. (2007). Dynamic shared visual spaces: Experimenting with automatic camera control in a remote repair task. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 (pp. 1177-1186). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240802

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Ranjan, A, Birnholtz, JP & Balakrishnan, R 2007, Dynamic shared visual spaces: Experimenting with automatic camera control in a remote repair task. in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, pp. 1177-1186, 25th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007, San Jose, CA, United States, 4/28/07. https://doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240802

Dynamic shared visual spaces : Experimenting with automatic camera control in a remote repair task. / Ranjan, Abhishek; Birnholtz, Jeremy P.; Balakrishnan, Ravin.

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007. 2007. p. 1177-1186 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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