Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators

There has been a massive growth in the number of people who film and upload amateur footage of events to services such as Facebook and Youtube, or even stream live to services such as LiveStream. We present an exploratory study that investigates the potential of these spectators in creating footage...

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Main Authors: Flintham, Martin D., Velt, Raphael, Wilson, Max L., Anstead, Edward J., Benford, Steve, Brown, Anthony, Pearce, Timothy, Price, Dominic, Sprinks, James
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: ACM 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31319/
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author Flintham, Martin D.
Velt, Raphael
Wilson, Max L.
Anstead, Edward J.
Benford, Steve
Brown, Anthony
Pearce, Timothy
Price, Dominic
Sprinks, James
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Velt, Raphael
Wilson, Max L.
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Benford, Steve
Brown, Anthony
Pearce, Timothy
Price, Dominic
Sprinks, James
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description There has been a massive growth in the number of people who film and upload amateur footage of events to services such as Facebook and Youtube, or even stream live to services such as LiveStream. We present an exploratory study that investigates the potential of these spectators in creating footage en masse; in this case, during a live trial at a local marathon. We deployed a prototype app, RunSpotRun, as a technology probe to see what kinds of footage spectators would produce. We present an analysis of this footage in terms of its coverage, quality, and contents, and also discuss the implications for a) spectators enjoying the race, and b) extracting the stories of individual runners throughout the race. We conclude with a discussion of the challenges that remain for deploying such technology at a larger scale.
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spelling nottingham-313192020-05-04T17:06:22Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31319/ Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators Flintham, Martin D. Velt, Raphael Wilson, Max L. Anstead, Edward J. Benford, Steve Brown, Anthony Pearce, Timothy Price, Dominic Sprinks, James There has been a massive growth in the number of people who film and upload amateur footage of events to services such as Facebook and Youtube, or even stream live to services such as LiveStream. We present an exploratory study that investigates the potential of these spectators in creating footage en masse; in this case, during a live trial at a local marathon. We deployed a prototype app, RunSpotRun, as a technology probe to see what kinds of footage spectators would produce. We present an analysis of this footage in terms of its coverage, quality, and contents, and also discuss the implications for a) spectators enjoying the race, and b) extracting the stories of individual runners throughout the race. We conclude with a discussion of the challenges that remain for deploying such technology at a larger scale. ACM 2015-04-20 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Flintham, Martin D., Velt, Raphael, Wilson, Max L., Anstead, Edward J., Benford, Steve, Brown, Anthony, Pearce, Timothy, Price, Dominic and Sprinks, James (2015) Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators. In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 18-23 April 2015, Seoul, South Korea. crowd sourcing marathon public settings story telling tagging video http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2702123.2702463
spellingShingle crowd sourcing
marathon
public settings
story telling
tagging
video
Flintham, Martin D.
Velt, Raphael
Wilson, Max L.
Anstead, Edward J.
Benford, Steve
Brown, Anthony
Pearce, Timothy
Price, Dominic
Sprinks, James
Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators
title Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators
title_full Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators
title_fullStr Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators
title_full_unstemmed Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators
title_short Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators
title_sort run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators
topic crowd sourcing
marathon
public settings
story telling
tagging
video
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31319/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31319/