Paper Info
Title
Embodied cooperation using mobile devices: presenting and evaluating the Sync4All application
Abstract
Embodied cooperation "arises when two co-present, individuals in motion coordinate their goal-directed actions". The adoption of the embodied cooperation paradigm for the development of embodied and social multimedia systems opens new perspectives for future User Centric Media. Systems for embodied music listening, which enable users to influence music in real-time by movement and gesture, can greatly benefit from the embodied cooperation paradigm. This paper presents the design and the evaluation of an application, Sync4All, based on such a paradigm, allowing users to experience social embodied music listening. Each user rhythmically and freely moves a mobile phone trying to synchronise her movements with those of the other ones. The level of such a synchronisation influences the music experience. The evaluation of Sync4All was aimed at finding out which is the overall attitude of the users towards the application, and how the participants perceived embodied cooperation and music embodiment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2254556.2254616
AVI
Keywords
Field
DocType
future user centric media,music experience,social multimedia system,cooperation paradigm,sync4all application,music listening,mobile device,new perspective,mobile phone,goal-directed action,embodied cooperation,music embodiment,real time,social behaviour
Embodied agent,Gesture,Computer science,Active listening,Embodied cognition,Mobile device,Human–computer interaction,Social multimedia,Mobile phone,Multimedia,User-centered design
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giovanna Varni117026.42
Maurizio Mancini259755.25
Gualtiero Volpe3864101.42