TY - GEN
T1 - Embedding a Crowd inside a Relay Baton: A Case Study in a Non-Competitive Sporting Activity
AU - Curmi, Franco
AU - Ferrario, Maria Angela Felicita Cristina
AU - Whittle, Jonathan Nicholas David
PY - 2017/5/6
Y1 - 2017/5/6
N2 - This paper presents a digital relay baton that connects long-distance runners with distributed online spectators. Such baton broadcasts athletes’ live locative data to a social network and communicates back remote-crowd support through haptic and audible cheers. Our work takes an exploratory design approach to bring new insights into the design of real-time techno-mediated social support. The prototype was deployed during a 170-mile charity relay race across the UK with 13 participants, 261 on-line supporters, and collected a total of 3153 ‘cheers’. We report on the insights collected during the design and deployment process and identify three fundamental design considerations: the degree of expressiveness afforded by the system design, the context applicability, and the data flow within the social network
AB - This paper presents a digital relay baton that connects long-distance runners with distributed online spectators. Such baton broadcasts athletes’ live locative data to a social network and communicates back remote-crowd support through haptic and audible cheers. Our work takes an exploratory design approach to bring new insights into the design of real-time techno-mediated social support. The prototype was deployed during a 170-mile charity relay race across the UK with 13 participants, 261 on-line supporters, and collected a total of 3153 ‘cheers’. We report on the insights collected during the design and deployment process and identify three fundamental design considerations: the degree of expressiveness afforded by the system design, the context applicability, and the data flow within the social network
UR - http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/embedding-a-crowd-inside-a-relay-baton(ba9470aa-fb83-404d-a2cd-8474a34583be).html
U2 - 10.1145/3025453.3025551
DO - 10.1145/3025453.3025551
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450346559
BT - CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ER -