Can I read Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '10 - Enhancing distributed corporate meetings with lightweight avatars on EtoBox?

Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '10 - Enhancing distributed corporate meetings with lightweight avatars by Shami, N. Sadat; Cheng, Li-Te; Rohall, Steven; Sempere, Andrew; Patterson, John is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '10 - Enhancing distributed corporate meetings with lightweight avatars about?

The difficulties remote participants of distributed meetings face are widely recognized. In this paper we describe the design of an avatar-based e-meeting support tool named Olympus, which aims to ameliorate some of the challenges remote participants face in distributed meetings. Olympus provides a customizable peripheral display on the bottom of existing e-meeting solutions. An initial observational study was conducted of the use of Olympus in 6 meetings, three each of a status meeting and a presentation meeting. Avatars fostered team bonding through social play during status meetings, while minimalist dots allowed focused attention during presentation meetings.

Author

Shami, N. Sadat; Cheng, Li-Te; Rohall, Steven; Sempere, Andrew; Patterson, John

Publisher

ACM Press

Published

2010

Language

EN