Supporting Shared Family Experiences with Mobile Media Spaces

家庭成员经常希望一起参加家庭以外的活动。例如，他们喜欢一起进行休闲活动，如远足或骑自行车。然而，许多家庭成员现在在地理上分开居住。在这些情况下，家庭成员一起参加家庭以外的活动是非常具有挑战性的。移动视频会议系统在基本层面上支持这些体验，但过于简单，难以在实际环境中使用，而且通常只支持单向视频共享。****我提出的研究探讨了移动媒体空间的设计来解决这个问题。移动媒体空间是视频会议应用程序，它提供轻松访问音频和视频链接，以支持多个移动用户之间远距离共享活动。他们依靠可穿戴移动摄像头（如谷歌Glass、GoPro）或智能手机来传输视频。例如，想象一下，你可以和远方的家人一起去跑步，你可以和她说话，看看她看到了什么，就好像你们在同一个地方一样。目前，我们对如何设计这样的系统知之甚少，以解决易用性、隐私性、安全性和用户满意度问题，以满足家庭成员异地联系的需求。****首先，我将通过需求分析方法调查家庭成员在家庭之外共同参与活动的用户例程和需求。其次，我将利用这种理解来构建一个软件基础架构，并研究新的移动媒体空间应用的原型。第三，我将通过实验室和实地研究，使用混合方法评估研究原型。总之，这项研究将提供一个详细的了解移动媒体空间应该如何设计共享的家庭体验，以及建立这种技术先进的视频通信系统的新方法。****这项研究非常重要，因为我们开始看到移动视频会议成为家庭成员之间的一种活动。公司正在创建新的移动视频流设计，但他们的设计往往过于简单，通常只允许一个人参与活动，而另一个人观看。因此，我的研究有可能通过对如何最好地设计此类系统的经验理解，为视频流应用的新类型提供信息。

Family members often want to participate in activities together that occur outside of the home. For example, they enjoy performing leisure activities together such as hiking or bicycling. Yet many family members are now living geographically apart. In these situations, it is very challenging for family members to participate in activities together outside of the home. Mobile video conferencing systems support these experiences at a basic level, yet are overly simplistic, challenging to use in real contexts, and often only support unidirectional video sharing.****My proposed research explores the design of mobile media spaces to address this problem. Mobile media spaces are video conferencing applications that provide easy access to audio and video links to support the sharing of activities over distance between multiple mobile users. They rely on wearable mobile cameras (e.g., Google Glass, GoPro) or smartphones to stream video. For example, imagine being able to go for a run with a distant family member where you can talk to her and see what she sees, as though you are in the same place. Currently we know little of how such systems should be designed to address ease-of-use, privacy, safety, and user satisfaction in an effort to meet the needs of family members to feel connected over distance.****First, I will investigate the user routines and needs that family members have for participating in activities together outside of the home through requirements analysis methodologies. Second, I will use this understanding to build a software infrastructure and research prototypes of new mobile media space applications. Third, I will evaluate the research prototypes through laboratory and field studies using mixed-methods evaluations. Together, this research will provide a detailed understanding of how mobile media spaces should be designed for shared family experiences, along with new methods for building such technically advanced video communication systems.****This research is highly significant for we are starting to see mobile video conferencing emerge as an activity amongst family members. Companies are creating new mobile video streaming designs yet their design is often overly simplistic and typically only allows one person to participate in an activity while another watches. Thus, my research has the potential to inform a new genre of video streaming applications through an empirical understanding of how to best design such systems.