VisSTREAM: VISUALIZING TEMPORAL MULTIMEDIA CONVERSATIONS
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2002-02-12
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Casual interaction is recognized as the backbone of everyday
collaboration, where a wealth of valuable information is exchanged by people in
brief and impromptu but context-rich meetings. Within CSCW, many researchers
strive to support casual interaction between distance-separated collaborators
through specially designed groupware systems. Early versions of these systems,
such as media spaces and instant messaging systems, presented only one or two
media channels for supporting interpersonal awareness and resulting
interactions. However, more recent systems offer many media channels in an
effort to emulate the rich contextual information visible in the everyday
world. One such system built in our laboratory is the Notification Collage,
which lets people post various media elements to a publicly viewable electronic
work surface. Media elements include text notes, images, slide shows, web
pages, video snapshots, one's computer screen, and so on. The idea is that
these rich information sources provide the group with awareness not only of
each other's interpersonal state, but of interesting artifacts; the consequence
of this awareness will be many casual interactions.
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Computer Science