Embedding a crowd inside a relay baton: a case study in a non-competitive sporting activity

Franco Curmi; Maria Angela Ferrario; Jon Whittle

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025551

Embedding a crowd inside a relay baton: a case study in a non-competitive sporting activity

Franco Curmi, Maria Angela Ferrario, Jon Whittle

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Abstract

This paper presents a digital relay baton that connects longdistance runners with distributed online spectators. The baton broadcasts athletes' live locative data to a social network and communicates back remote-crowd support through haptic and audible cheers. Our work takes an exploratory design approach to bring new insights into the design of real-time techno-mediated social support. The prototype was deployed during a 170-mile charity relay race across the UK with 13 participants, 261 on-line supporters, and gathered a total of 3, 153 'cheers'. We report on the insights collected during the design and deployment process and identify three fundamental design considerations: the degree of spectator expression that the design affords, the context applicability, and the data flow within the social network.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Cliff Lampe, m.c. schraefel
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	2359-2370
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450346559
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025551
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017 - Colorado Convention Center, Denver, United States of America Duration: 6 May 2017 → 11 May 2017 Conference number: 35th https://chi2017.acm.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3025453 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017
Abbreviated title	CHI 2017
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Denver
Period	6/05/17 → 11/05/17
Internet address	https://chi2017.acm.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3025453 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Broadcast
Cheering
Relay baton
Relay race
Social networks
Social support
Spectators
Sports

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Curmi, F., Ferrario, M. A., & Whittle, J. (2017). Embedding a crowd inside a relay baton: a case study in a non-competitive sporting activity. In C. Lampe, & M. C. schraefel (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2359-2370). [2359] Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025551

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Curmi, F, Ferrario, MA & Whittle, J 2017, Embedding a crowd inside a relay baton: a case study in a non-competitive sporting activity. in C Lampe & MC schraefel (eds), Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 2359, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 2359-2370, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017, Denver, Colorado, United States of America, 6/05/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025551

Embedding a crowd inside a relay baton : a case study in a non-competitive sporting activity. / Curmi, Franco; Ferrario, Maria Angela; Whittle, Jon.

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Cliff Lampe; m.c. schraefel. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. p. 2359-2370 2359.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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Curmi F, Ferrario MA, Whittle J. Embedding a crowd inside a relay baton: a case study in a non-competitive sporting activity. In Lampe C, schraefel MC, editors, Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2017. p. 2359-2370. 2359 https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025551

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