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The Underwhelming Effects of Location-Awareness of Others on Collaboration in a Pervasive Game

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2006

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COOP 2006: Cooperative Systems Design - Seamless Integration of Artifacts and Conversations - Enhanced Concepts of Infrastructure for Communication

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IOS Press

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In this paper we seek to empirically study the use of location-awareness of others in the context of mobile collaboration. We report on a field experiment carried out using a pervasive game we developed called CatchBob!. Using both quantitative and qualitative data, we show the underwhelming effects of automating location-awareness. Our results indeed shows that automating this process does not necessarily improve the task performance and that it can be detrimental to socio-cognitive processes involved in collaboration such as communication or the modeling of partners' intents. The paper concludes with some potential impacts for location-based application practitioners.

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Nova, Nicolas; Girardin, Fabien; Molinari, Gaëlle; Dillenbourg, Pierre (2006): The Underwhelming Effects of Location-Awareness of Others on Collaboration in a Pervasive Game. COOP 2006: Cooperative Systems Design - Seamless Integration of Artifacts and Conversations - Enhanced Concepts of Infrastructure for Communication. IOS Press. ISBN: 978-1-58603-604-1. pp. 224-238. Carry-le-Rouet, France. 9-12 May 2006

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COOP 2006: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Designing Cooperative Systems