Wearable Cuing System for Physical Collaboration

This research goal is to facilitate real-time serial cooperative work. In real-time serial cooperative work, the order of subtasks is important because a failure of the order leads to a failure of the whole task. So, coordinating the order of workers’ subtasks is necessary to smoothly accomplish the tasks. In this paper, we propose a method that uses vibration to present the action order and coordinate the orders. We conducted a user study to verify the effectiveness of the method in theatrical performance practice, which was an example of real-time serial cooperative work. As a result, order coordination reduced mistakes in the order of speech and action and in the contents of lines and action. This result suggests that order coordination can improve real-time serial cooperative work.


References

  • Ryosuke Takatsu, Naoki Katayama, Tomoo Inoue, Hiroshi Shigeno, Ken-Ichi Okada, A wearable system with individual cuing for theatrical performance practice, Collaboration and Technology (Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference, CRIWG 2016), LNCS 9848, pp.37-49, 2016.9.
  • Ryosuke Takatsu, Naoki Katayama, Tomoo Inoue, Hiroshi Shigeno, Ken-Ichi Okada, A wearable action cueing system for theatrical performance practice, Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing (Proceedings of the 8th International Conference, CollabTech 2016), CCIS 647, pp.130-145, 2016.9.
  • Kosuke Sasaki, Tomoo Inoue, “Coordinating Real-Time Serial Cooperative Work by Cuing the Order in the Case of Theatrical Performance Practice”, Mobile Information Systems, vol. 2019, Article ID 4545917, 10 pages, 2019.2.