Paper Info
Title
Influencing social dynamics in meetings through a peripheral display
Abstract
We present a service providing real-time feedback to participants of small group meetings on the social dynamics of the meeting. The service measures and visualizes properties of participants' behaviour that are relevant to the social dynamics of the meeting: speaking time and gaze behaviour. The dynamic visualization is offered to meeting participants during the meeting through a peripheral display. Whereas an initial version was evaluated using wizards to obtain the required information about gazing behaviour and speaking activity instead of perceptual systems, in the current paper we employ a system including automated perceptual components. We describe the system properties and the perceptual components. The service was evaluated in a within-subjects experiment, where groups of participants discussed topics of general interest, with a total of 82 participants. It was found that the presence of the feedback about speaking time influenced the behaviour of the participants in such a way that it made over-participators to behave less dominant and under-participators to become more active. Feedback on eye gaze behaviour did not affect participants' gazing behaviour (both for listeners and for speakers) during the meeting.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1322192.1322238
ICMI
Keywords
Field
DocType
perceptual component,peripheral display,gazing behaviour,perceptual system,small group meeting,automated perceptual component,real-time feedback,meeting participant,social dynamic,system property,service measure,social dynamics,speech activity detection,service provider,eye gaze,real time
Gaze,Computer science,Visualization,Voice activity detection,Human–computer interaction,Eye tracking,Social dynamics,Speaking (activity),Perception
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
26
1.44
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Janienke Sturm135636.54
Olga Houben-van Herwijnen2261.44
Anke Eyck3392.68
Jacques M. B. Terken428145.61