Rubinstein, JacobEngel, Don2023-06-162023-06-162023-01-08Jacob 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/10.1145/3565967.3570974https://doi.org/10.1145/3565967.3570974http://hdl.handle.net/11603/28222ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA, January 8-11, 2023After 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.4 pagesen-USThis item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.Text