Consideration for a Within-Subject Study Comparing Effectiveness of Cameras with Different Field of Views in Remote Collaboration
Fan Jiaying (1651216)
As mobile communication devices and high definition cameras have been used extensively, remote collaboration can be supported in a lot of scenes in our daily life, like remote surgery, machine repairing, online learning. Except for voice, cameras also play an important role in view sharing in remote collaboration activities, especially with the emerging of panorama camera, more working environment information can be provided to distribution partners. Even though the cameras always being used in live recording and workspace sharing, their impact on remote collaboration is still unknown to us. To get a better understanding of the effectiveness of different field of view in workspace sharing, while also in remote physical collaborative behavior, process, perception and result performance. We conduct a within-subject study contains two tasks and two technology methods. The tasks are set to Lego assembly(working on one desktop) and puzzle(working on multiple spots). The technical methods including standard cameras(view angle of 78-degree) and panorama cameras(view angle of 360-degree). We hope the findings from this study could offer design and research implications, underlining the importance of the wide-angle view of workspace in remote collaborations, especially in some special scene.