2018
Punyashlok Dash, Carman Neustaedter, Alissa N. Antle. 2018. Covert-Glass: A Wearable That Enables Surreptitious 911 Video Calling Proceedings Article . In Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW '18 Association for Computing Machinery, Jersey City, NJ, USA, 185–188, .
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: 911 video call, glasses, surreptitious calls, tangible, vibrating, wearable
@inproceedings{10.1145/3272973.3274051,
title = {Covert-Glass: A Wearable That Enables Surreptitious 911 Video Calling},
author = {Punyashlok Dash and Carman Neustaedter and Alissa N. Antle},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3274051},
doi = {10.1145/3272973.3274051},
isbn = {9781450360180},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
pages = {185–188},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {Jersey City, NJ, USA},
series = {CSCW '18},
abstract = {In the future, emergency calls to the number 9cscwp1 in North America will include the ability to make video calls with 9cscwp1 call centers yet little is known about how to design such technologies, so they map to people's real emergency needs. We explore this design space by investigating systems that can allow 9cscwp1 callers to stream a surreptitious video call of an assailant. This paper explores a specific scenario where the person trapped may not be in direct danger from the assailant but is still present in the vicinity. We introduce -Covert-Glass', technology-enhanced glasses that aid callers to conduct a surreptitious 9cscwp1 video call. The glasses guide a person to control the direction of his/her phone camera based on the 9cscwp1 operator's input. 9cscwp1 call takers send remote signals to the user's device and these appear as haptic vibrations on either side of the glasses.},
keywords = {911 video call, glasses, surreptitious calls, tangible, vibrating, wearable},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
In the future, emergency calls to the number 9cscwp1 in North America will include the ability to make video calls with 9cscwp1 call centers yet little is known about how to design such technologies, so they map to people's real emergency needs. We explore this design space by investigating systems that can allow 9cscwp1 callers to stream a surreptitious video call of an assailant. This paper explores a specific scenario where the person trapped may not be in direct danger from the assailant but is still present in the vicinity. We introduce -Covert-Glass', technology-enhanced glasses that aid callers to conduct a surreptitious 9cscwp1 video call. The glasses guide a person to control the direction of his/her phone camera based on the 9cscwp1 operator's input. 9cscwp1 call takers send remote signals to the user's device and these appear as haptic vibrations on either side of the glasses.