Drones, Phones, and Stones: Initial Testing of a Role-Based, Computer-Supported Approach to Collaborative Cemetery Indexing

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0696-3452
 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2838-0140

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2023-01-08

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Jacob Rubinstein and Don Engel. 2023. Drones, Phones, and Stones: Initial Testing of a Role-Based, Computer-Supported Approach to Collaborative Cemetery Indexing. In Companion Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 9–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3565967.3570974

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After project organizers used a drone to create a high-resolution aerial map of a historic cemetery, sets of volunteers served in four distinct, interdependent roles to photograph, research, restore, and geospatially index the cemetery’s many unrecorded interments. Here, we share observations from our initial tests of this approach, which included a visit of volunteers for synchronous on-site work. We explore the differences in volunteer behavior and performance relative to organizer expectations and how the interdependence of the four roles is impacted by these differences.