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5. Conclusions
This chapter has used recorded video data from military aviation to consider
when and how mobility can feature in interaction for collaborative work.
The chapter examined specifically how mobile participants can see what they
are doing and what is going on around them. The data were cockpit video/
audio recordings of a friendly fire incident from the Iraq War, in which a US
aircraft patrol mistakenly fired on a British armoured vehicle convoy. The
analyses focussed on how two pilots collaborated to locate and see relevant
battlefield participants, namely themselves as mobile members of a two-
party team, and some target vehicles on the move thousands of feet below
them on the ground. We saw some particular ways by whic ...