'Eyes free' in-car assistance: Parent and child passenger collaboration during phone calls

Chandrika Cycil, Mark Perry, Eric Laurier, Alex Taylor

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Abstract

This paper examines routine family car journeys, looking specifically at how passengers assist during a mobile telephone call while the drivers address the competing demands of handling the vehicle, interacting with various artefacts and controls in the cabin, and engage in co-located and remote conversations while navigating through busy city roads. Based on an analysis of video fragments, we see how drivers and child passengers form their conversations and requests around the call so as to be meaningful and paced to the demands, knowledge and abilities of their co-occupants, and how the conditions of the road and emergent traffic are oriented to and negotiated in the context of the social interaction that they exist alongside. The study provides implications for the design of car-based collaborative media and considers how hands- and eyes-free natural interfaces could be tailored to the complexity of activities in the car and on the road.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobileHCI 2013 - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
Pages332-341
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Sept 2013
Event15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2013 - Munich, Germany
Duration: 27 Aug 201330 Aug 2013

Publication series

NameMobileHCI 2013 - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2013
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period27/08/1330/08/13

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • collaboration
  • ethnography
  • family
  • in-car assistance
  • qualitative

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