Exhibiting Evidence in Remote Courtrooms: Design and Usability Study

ABSTRACT Remote court proceedings, an intensely collaborative process, are a reality in the pandemic but struggle to support evidence review. Remote proceedings are likely to continue after the pandemic, making it imperative to strengthen evidence viewing and analysis for jurors. Our project addressed this problem by prototyping an assistive application that offered multiple points of view and evaluating it in a small user study. Five participants used the application to review case-specific exhibits in a hypothetical court session while thinking aloud. Participants were satisfied with the application, with almost no facilitation. We also identified the need to make a display of the setting in which the evidence was found more interactive and navigable.