Remote Collaboration Over Video Data: Towards Real-Time e-Social Science

  • Authors:

  • Mike Fraser;Jon Hindmarsh;Katie Best;Christian Heath;Greg Biegel;Chris Greenhalgh;Stuart Reeves

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK BS8 1UB;Work, Interaction and Technology Group, Department of Management, King's College London, London, UK SE1 9NH;Work, Interaction and Technology Group, Department of Management, King's College London, London, UK SE1 9NH;Work, Interaction and Technology Group, Department of Management, King's College London, London, UK SE1 9NH;Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK BS8 1UB;The Mixed Reality Laboratory & Learning Sciences Research Institute, School of Computer Science & IT, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK NG8 1BB;The Mixed Reality Laboratory & Learning Sciences Research Institute, School of Computer Science & IT, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK NG8 1BB

  • Venue:
  • Computer Supported Cooperative Work
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The design of distributed systems to support collaboration among groups of scientists raises new networking challenges that grid middleware developers are addressing. This field of development work, `e-Science', is increasingly recognising the critical need of understanding the ordinary day-to-day work of doing research to inform design. We have investigated one particular area of collaborative social scientific work --- the analysis of video data. Based on interviews and observational studies, we discuss current practices of social scientific work with digital video in three areas: Preparation for collaboration; Control of data and application; and Annotation configurations and techniques. For each, we describe how these requirements feature in our design of a distributed video analysis system as part of the MiMeG project: our security policy and distribution; the design of the control system; and providing freeform annotation over data. Finally, we review our design in light of initial use of the software between project partners; and discuss how we might transform the spatial configuration of the system to support annotation behaviour.