New Experiments with ShoutSpace

ShoutSpace is an application for collaborative annotations of a map in a nomadic setting (Stamps being the mobile version), I developed with Mauro Cherubini at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technologies Lausanne (EPFL). This week, we modified the system for Mauro to run experiments in fixed settings with a very specific task and 3 experiments conditions. The first where participants can communicate using a standard chat utility. The second where participants enrich the conversation with spatial information and finally a mixed condition where they are free to use a standard utility or the spatialized one.

The three experimental conditions

Relation to my thesis: Mauro’s work over the years has given me lost of insights on spatial annotations and how to run experiments in mobile settings.