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Talking in circles: designing a spatially-grounded audioconferencing environment

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Roy Rodenstein,

Judith S. DonathAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '00: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 81 - 88

https://doi.org/10.1145/332040.332410

Published: 01 April 2000 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents Talking in Circles, a multimodal audioconferencing environment whose novel design emphasizes spatial grounding with the aim of supporting naturalistic group interaction behaviors. Participants communicate primarily by speech and are represented as colored circles in a two-dimensional space. Behaviors such as subgroup conversations and social navigation are supported through circle mobility as mediated by the environment and the crowd and distance-based attenuation of the audio. The circles serve as platforms for the display of identity, presence and activity: graphics are synchronized to participants' speech to aid in speech-source identification and participants can sketch in their circle, allowing a pictorial and gestural channel to complement the audio. We note user experiences through informal studies as well as design challenges we have faced in the creation of a rich environment for computer-mediated communication.

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