%0 Conference Paper %1 Lee:2011:IBU:1978942.1978950 %A Lee, Min Kyung %A Takayama, Leila %B Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems %C New York, NY, USA %D 2011 %I ACM %K informal mobile reticollab1112 %P 33--42 %R 10.1145/1978942.1978950 %T "Now, i have a body": uses and social norms for mobile remote presence in the workplace %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1978942.1978950 %X As geographically distributed teams become increasingly common, there are more pressing demands for communication work practices and technologies that support distributed collaboration. One set of technologies that are emerging on the commercial market is mobile remote presence (MRP) systems, physically embodied videoconferencing systems that remote workers use to drive through a workplace, communicating with locals there. Our interviews, observations, and survey results from people, who had 2-18 months of MRP use, showed how remotely-controlled mobility enabled remote workers to live and work with local coworkers almost as if they were physically there. The MRP supported informal communications and connections between distributed coworkers. We also found that the mobile embodiment of the remote worker evoked orientations toward the MRP both as a person and as a machine, leading to formation of new usage norms among remote and local coworkers. %@ 978-1-4503-0228-9

@inproceedings{Lee:2011:IBU:1978942.1978950, abstract = {As geographically distributed teams become increasingly common, there are more pressing demands for communication work practices and technologies that support distributed collaboration. One set of technologies that are emerging on the commercial market is mobile remote presence (MRP) systems, physically embodied videoconferencing systems that remote workers use to drive through a workplace, communicating with locals there. Our interviews, observations, and survey results from people, who had 2-18 months of MRP use, showed how remotely-controlled mobility enabled remote workers to live and work with local coworkers almost as if they were physically there. The MRP supported informal communications and connections between distributed coworkers. We also found that the mobile embodiment of the remote worker evoked orientations toward the MRP both as a person and as a machine, leading to formation of new usage norms among remote and local coworkers.}, acmid = {1978950}, added-at = {2011-09-26T18:20:24.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Lee, Min Kyung and Takayama, Leila}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2fb733835311ed03ecd7d752df02fe736/lanubile}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems}, description = {"Now, i have a body"}, doi = {10.1145/1978942.1978950}, interhash = {8dbda5c1e281340c0ebd9a7d91eba21c}, intrahash = {fb733835311ed03ecd7d752df02fe736}, isbn = {978-1-4503-0228-9}, keywords = {informal mobile reticollab1112}, location = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}, numpages = {10}, pages = {33--42}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {CHI '11}, timestamp = {2011-09-26T18:20:24.000+0200}, title = {"Now, i have a body": uses and social norms for mobile remote presence in the workplace}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1978942.1978950}, year = 2011 }