TY - GEN
T1 - Creating serendipitous encounters in a geographically distributed community
AU - Renduchintala, Adithya
AU - Kelliher, Aisling
AU - Sundaram, Hari
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This paper is focused on the development of serendipitous interfaces that promote casual and chance encounters within a geographically distributed community. The problem is particularly important for distributed workforces, where there is little opportunity for chance encounters that are crucial to the formation of a sense of community. There are three contributions of this paper. (a) development of a robust communication architecture facilitating serendipitous casual interaction using online media repositories coupled to two multimodal interfaces (b) development of multimodal interfaces that allow users to browse, leave audio comments, and asynchronously listen to other community members, and (c) a multimodal gesture driven control (vision and ultrasonic) of the audio-visual display. Our user studies reveal that the interfaces are well liked, and promote social interaction.
AB - This paper is focused on the development of serendipitous interfaces that promote casual and chance encounters within a geographically distributed community. The problem is particularly important for distributed workforces, where there is little opportunity for chance encounters that are crucial to the formation of a sense of community. There are three contributions of this paper. (a) development of a robust communication architecture facilitating serendipitous casual interaction using online media repositories coupled to two multimodal interfaces (b) development of multimodal interfaces that allow users to browse, leave audio comments, and asynchronously listen to other community members, and (c) a multimodal gesture driven control (vision and ultrasonic) of the audio-visual display. Our user studies reveal that the interfaces are well liked, and promote social interaction.
KW - Image repository
KW - Mediated communication
KW - Online media repository
KW - Remote interfaces
KW - Serendipitous interaction
KW - Social computing
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U2 - 10.1145/1178745.1178756
DO - 10.1145/1178745.1178756
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34547381608
SN - 1595935002
SN - 9781595935007
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM International Multimedia Conference and Exhibition
SP - 45
EP - 54
BT - Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia, HCM 2006
T2 - 1st ACM International Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia, HCM 2006, co-located with the 2006 ACM International Multimedia Conference
Y2 - 27 October 2007 through 27 October 2007
ER -