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Influencing social dynamics in meetings through a peripheral display

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Janienke Sturm,

Olga Houben-van Herwijnen,

Jacques TerkenAuthors Info & Claims

ICMI '07: Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Multimodal interfaces

Pages 263 - 270

https://doi.org/10.1145/1322192.1322238

Published: 12 November 2007 Publication History

Abstract

We present a service providing real-time feedback to participants of small group meetings on the social dynamics of the meeting. The service measures and visualizes properties of participants' behaviour that are relevant to the social dynamics of the meeting: speaking time and gaze behaviour. The dynamic visualization is offered to meeting participants during the meeting through a peripheral display. Whereas an initial version was evaluated using wizards to obtain the required information about gazing behaviour and speaking activity instead of perceptual systems, in the current paper we employ a system including automated perceptual components. We describe the system properties and the perceptual components. The service was evaluated in a within-subjects experiment, where groups of participants discussed topics of general interest, with a total of 82 participants. It was found that the presence of the feedback about speaking time influenced the behaviour of the participants in such a way that it made over-participators to behave less dominant and under-participators to become more active. Feedback on eye gaze behaviour did not affect participants' gazing behaviour (both for listeners and for speakers) during the meeting.

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Influencing social dynamics in meetings through a peripheral display
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing design and evaluation methods
    2. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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ICMI '07: Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Multimodal interfaces

November 2007

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ISBN:9781595938176

DOI:10.1145/1322192

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Nagoya University, Japan
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UC Santa Cruz, USA
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Nagoya University, Japan
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MIT, USA
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Technical University of Crete, Greece

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