Supporting Team Coordination on the Ground: Requirements from a Mixed-Reality Game

Abstract. We generate requirements for time-critical distributed team support rel-evant for domains such as disaster response. We present the Radiation Response Game to investigate socio-technical issues regarding team coordination. Field re-sponders in this mixed-reality game use smartphones to coordinate, via text mes-saging, GPS, and maps, with headquarters and each other. We conduct interaction analysis to examine field observations and log data, revealing how teams achieve local and remote coordination and maintain situational awareness. We uncover re-quirements that highlight the role of local coordination, decision-making re-sources, geospatial referencing and message handling