Supporting Shared Family Experiences with Mobile Media Spaces

家庭成员经常想要一起参加在家里以外的活动。例如，他们喜欢一起进行休闲活动，如徒步旅行或骑自行车。然而，许多家庭成员现在生活在地理上相距遥远的地方。在这种情况下，家庭成员一起参加户外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，难以在真实环境中使用，而且通常只支持单向视频共享。 我提出的研究探索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，提供对音频和视频链接的轻松访问，以支持多个移动用户之间远距离共享活动。他们依靠可穿戴式移动摄像头(如谷歌眼镜、GoPro)或智能手机来传输视频。例如，想象一下，你可以和一位远方的家人一起跑步，你可以和她交谈，看到她看到的东西，就像你们在同一个地方。目前，我们几乎不知道应该如何设计这样的系统来解决易用性、隐私、安全性和用户满意度，以努力满足家庭成员感觉远距离连接的需求。 首先，我将通过需求分析方法调查家庭成员在一起参与户外活动时的用户惯例和需求。其次，我将利用这一认识来构建软件基础设施，并研究新移动媒体空间应用的原型。第三，通过实验室和实地考察，采用混合评价方法对研究原型进行评价。总而言之，这项研究将提供关于移动媒体空间应该如何设计以共享家庭体验的详细理解，以及构建这种技术先进的视频通信系统的新方法。 这项研究意义重大，因为我们开始看到移动视频会议在家庭成员中成为一种活动。公司正在创造新的移动视频流媒体设计，但他们的设计往往过于简单化，通常只允许一个人参与一项活动，而另一个人则观看。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，为一种新的视频流应用程序提供信息。

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.