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Mobile devices are rapidly becoming an indispensible part of our everyday life. Integrated with various embedded sensors and the ability to support on-the-move processing, mobile devices are being investigated as potential tools to support cooperative team interactions and distributed real-time decision making in both military and civilian applications. A driving interest is how a mobile device equipped with multimodal communication capabilities can contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of real-time, task outcome and performance. In this paper, we investigate the effects of a prototype multimodal collaborative Android application on distributed collaborating partners jointly working on a physical task. The mobile application’s implementation supports real-time data dissemination of an active workspace’s perspective between distributed operators. The prototype application was demonstrated in a scenario where teammates utilize different features of the software to collaboratively assemble a complex structure. Results indicated significant improvements in completion times when users visually shared their perspectives and were able to utilize image annotation versus relying on verbal descriptors.
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Burnett, G.M., Calvo, A., Finomore, V., Funke, G. (2013). The Effects of Multimodal Mobile Communications on Cooperative Team Interactions Executing Distributed Tasks. In: Streitz, N., Stephanidis, C. (eds) Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions. DAPI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8028. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39351-8_39
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