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- research-articleNovember 2023
Now is the Time: Scalable and Cloud-supported Audio Conferencing using End-to-End Homomorphic Encryption
CCSW '23: Proceedings of the 2023 on Cloud Computing Security WorkshopPages 41–53https://doi.org/10.1145/3605763.3625245Homomorphic encryption (HE) allows computations on encrypted data, leaking neither the input nor the computational output. While the method has historically been infeasible to use in practice, due to recent advancements, HE has started to be applied in ...
- surveyFebruary 2022
Security and Privacy in Unified Communication
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 55, Issue 3Article No.: 55, Pages 1–36https://doi.org/10.1145/3498335The use of unified communication; video conferencing, audio conferencing, and instant messaging has skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, security and privacy considerations have often been neglected. This article provides a comprehensive ...
- research-articleAugust 2014
Effects of video and text support on grounding in multilingual multiparty audio conferencing
CABS '14: Proceedings of the 5th ACM international conference on Collaboration across boundaries: culture, distance & technologyPages 73–81https://doi.org/10.1145/2631488.2631497With computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools allowing collaborations to span the globe, teams can include multiple collaborators located in different countries. Previous research shows how audio communication supplemented by video conferencing or ...
- research-articleFebruary 2013
Lost in transmittance: how transmission lag enhances and deteriorates multilingual collaboration
CSCW '13: Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative workPages 923–934https://doi.org/10.1145/2441776.2441881Previous research has shown that audio communication is particularly difficult for non-native speakers (NNS) during multilingual collaborations. Especially when audio signals become distorted, NNS are overburdened by not only having to communicate with ...
- ArticleJanuary 2012
Communicator Trust across Media: A Comparison of Audio Conferencing, Video Conferencing, and a 3D Virtual Environment
HICSS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System SciencesPages 839–848https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2012.165Geographically dispersed teams rely on information and communication technologies (ICTs) to communicate and collaborate. Three ICTs that have received attention are audio conferencing (AC), video conferencing (VC), and, recently, 3D virtual environments ...
- research-articleAugust 2011
ACT: audio conference tool over named data networking
ICN '11: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Information-centric networkingPages 68–73https://doi.org/10.1145/2018584.2018601In this paper we present the design of an audio conference tool, which is one of our efforts to explore application de- signs on top of Named Data Networking. Instead of rely- ing on centralized services as current implementations do, ACT takes a named ...
- research-articleFebruary 2010
Exploring spatialized audio & video for distributed conversations
CSCW '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative workPages 95–98https://doi.org/10.1145/1718918.1718936Previous work has demonstrated the benefits of spatial audio conferencing over monophonic when listening to a group conversation. In this paper we examined three-way distributed conversations while varying the presence of spatial video and audio. Our ...
- ArticleMay 2007
Implementing conditional conference call use case over IMS and non IMS testbed: an experimental results through comparison approach
IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) is a technology leading towards Next Generation Networks (NGN) which has the ability to provide converged service regardless of any access networks. This paper presents a conference call use case application and the ...
- ArticleApril 2007
An empirical study of the use of visually enhanced voip audio conferencing: the case of IEAC
- Xianghua Ding,
- Thomas Erickson,
- Wendy A. Kellogg,
- Stephen Levy,
- James E. Christensen,
- Jeremy Sussman,
- Tracee Vetting Wolf,
- William E. Bennett
CHI '07: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 1019–1028https://doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240780IBM Enhanced Audio Conferencing (IEAC) is a VoIP-based audio conferencing system that, like several other systems, provides a visualization showing who is present and their states (e.g., speaking, muted). This paper presents the first study of the use ...
- ArticleNovember 2006
Leveraging digital backchannels to enhance user experience in electronically mediated communication
- Wendy A. Kellogg,
- Thomas Erickson,
- Tracee Vetting Wolf,
- Stephen Levy,
- Jim Christensen,
- Jeremy Sussman,
- William E. Bennett
CSCW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative workPages 451–454https://doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180943Rendezvous is a conference call solution that leverages Voice over IP, enterprise calendaring, instant messaging, and rich client functionality to enhance the user experience and effectiveness of distributed meetings. We describe the service, and two of ...
- ArticleNovember 2006
Improving audio conferencing: are two ears better than one?
CSCW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative workPages 333–342https://doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180926In this paper, we describe a range of audio problems that impact the effectiveness of audio conferences and detail the solutions we have devised to address these problems. We conducted an audio quality assessment to determine how differences in quality ...
- ArticleApril 2005
Private communications in public meetings
CHI EA '05: CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 1873–1876https://doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1057044Out-of-band communication during audio conferences can improve the effectiveness of distributed meetings. It provides a means for people to privately consult with one another, supports breakout sessions, and allows individuals to resolve problems ...
- ArticleNovember 2004
Meeting central: making distributed meetings more effective
CSCW '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative workPages 419–428https://doi.org/10.1145/1031607.1031678The Meeting Central prototype is a suite of collaboration tools designed to support distributed meetings. The tools' minimalist design provides only those features that have the most impact on distributed meeting effectiveness. The collaboration suite ...
- ArticleOctober 2004
Use of telepresence in informal broadcasting over the internet
ETP '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMM workshop on Effective telepresencePages 12–15https://doi.org/10.1145/1026776.1026781We had trial broadcast for a university graduation ceremony with telepresence. One of the graduates carried a laptop computer with a camera with him, and we broadcast the video image from the camera on the Internet. The audience on the network ...
- ArticleOctober 2004
BiReality: mutually-immersive telepresence
MULTIMEDIA '04: Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on MultimediaPages 860–867https://doi.org/10.1145/1027527.1027725BiReality (a.k.a. Mutually-Immersive Telepresence) uses a teleoperated robotic surrogate to provide an immersive telepresence system for face-to-face interactions. Our goal is to recreate to the greatest extent practical, both for the user and the ...
- ArticleNovember 2002
First steps towards mutually-immersive mobile telepresence
CSCW '02: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative workPages 354–363https://doi.org/10.1145/587078.587128Mutually-Immersive Mobile Telepresence uses a teleoperated robotic surrogate to visit remote locations as a substitute for physical travel. Our goal is to recreate to the greatest extent possible, both for the user and the people at the remote location, ...
- ArticleNovember 2000
IGMPv3-based method for avoiding DoS attacks in multicast-enabled networks
IP multicast has proven to be very good for many-to-many multimedia communications like audio and video conferencing. However there are only a few Internet service providers offering it as a true Internet service to their customers. The reason is that ...
- ArticleMarch 1997
The RISE platform: supporting social interaction for on-line education
CHI EA '97: CHI '97 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 275–276https://doi.org/10.1145/1120212.1120390We present RISE (Real-time Interactive Social Environment), a platform supporting data sharing and high quality audio conferencing under control of a Word-Wide Web (WWW) user interface and making extensive use of a database to track and support users. ...