Title
Run Spot Run: Capturing and Tagging Footage of a Race by Crowds of Spectators
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2702123.2702463
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
marathon,miscellaneous,tagging,story telling,crowd sourcing,public settings,video
Crowds,World Wide Web,Computer science,Upload,Amateur,Multimedia,Exploratory research
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.54
19
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin Flintham184590.56
Raphael Velt2212.45
Max Wilson315913.33
Edward J. Anstead4100.54
Steve Benford55886696.64
Anthony Brown6214.25
Timothy Pearce7100.54
Dominic Price8345.81
James Sprinks9151.78