Friendscope: Exploring In-the-Moment Experience Sharing on Camera Glasses via a Shared Camera
This addresses the challenge of enhancing social connection through wearable technology for users of camera glasses, though it is incremental in exploring new configurations for existing sharing methods.
The paper tackles the problem of enabling in-the-moment experience sharing using camera glasses by introducing Friendscope, a system based on a shared camera concept that allows remote friends to control the camera, resulting in users feeling more connected and maintaining privacy and control.
We introduce Friendscope, an instant, in-the-moment experience sharing system for lightweight commercial camera glasses. Friendscope explores a new concept called a shared camera. This concept allows a wearer to share control of their camera with a remote friend, making it possible for both people to capture photos/videos from the camera in the moment. Through a user study with 48 participants, we found that users felt connected to each other, describing the shared camera as a more intimate form of livestreaming. Moreover, even privacy-sensitive users were able to retain their sense of privacy and control with the shared camera. Friendscope's different shared camera configurations give wearers ultimate control over who they share the camera with and what photos/videos they share. We conclude with design implications for future experience sharing systems.