Title :
Using common devices as collaborative tools for collecting and connecting people´s stories
Author :
Numa, Kosuke ; Sugimoto, Tatsuo ; Miyata, Masako ; Toriumi, Kiyoko ; Abe, Jun ; Tanaka, Yuri ; Niida, Sumaru ; Hori, Koichi
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
We propose a system for collecting and connecting people´s stories. In order to help encourage participants to engage their ¿expression mode,¿ we employed mobile phones for video capture, as opposed to traditional video cameras. As part of our work, we held a workshop in an art festival. In the workshop, facilitators capture participants´ stories using mobile phones. Applying a question-and-answer game format, each video has connections to other videos. Our system shows these connections on a large screen such that participants can see an entire network of stories and add their own to it. We show the results of our experiments and conclude that our proposed workshop could successfully collect people´s stories and connect them.
Keywords :
emotion recognition; groupware; mobile computing; video signal processing; collaborative tools common devices; collecting people stories; connecting people stories; expression mode; mobile phones; question-and-answer game format; video cameras; video capture; Art; Cameras; Collaborative tools; Conferences; Information management; Joining processes; Laboratories; Mobile handsets; Research and development; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Innovations in Information Technology, 2009. IIT '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Al Ain
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5698-7
DOI :
10.1109/IIT.2009.5413774