TY - GEN
T1 - Distorting social feedback in visualizations of conversation
AU - Bergstrom, Tony
AU - Karahalios, Karrie
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - Real-time collaborative visualization of conversation affects small group dynamics and encourages balanced participation. Visual feedback plays the role of a gentle moderator encouraging a speaker to yield the FIoor. To better evaluate the effect of visual feedback on collaboration, we purposefully distorted the apparent balance in the Conversation Clock, a shared visualization of conversation. We present a pilot study examining various distortion strategies followed by a more in depth study applying distortion to discussion. Our results indicate that participants will accept some significantly distorted visualizations as an accurate representation of conversation; however, distorted feedback provides only minimal impact on conversational balance. These findings suggest the mechanism in visualization that drives individuals towards balanced conversation is not solely influenced by the visual feedback and remains an open question for future work.
AB - Real-time collaborative visualization of conversation affects small group dynamics and encourages balanced participation. Visual feedback plays the role of a gentle moderator encouraging a speaker to yield the FIoor. To better evaluate the effect of visual feedback on collaboration, we purposefully distorted the apparent balance in the Conversation Clock, a shared visualization of conversation. We present a pilot study examining various distortion strategies followed by a more in depth study applying distortion to discussion. Our results indicate that participants will accept some significantly distorted visualizations as an accurate representation of conversation; however, distorted feedback provides only minimal impact on conversational balance. These findings suggest the mechanism in visualization that drives individuals towards balanced conversation is not solely influenced by the visual feedback and remains an open question for future work.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2012.222
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2012.222
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84857929244
SN - 9780769545257
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 533
EP - 542
BT - Proceedings of the 45th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-45
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2012
Y2 - 4 January 2012 through 7 January 2012
ER -