Title
Eery Space: Facilitating Virtual Meetings Through Remote Proxemics
Abstract
Virtual meetings have become increasingly common with modern video-conference and collaborative software. While they allow obvious savings in time and resources, current technologies add unproductive layers of protocol to the flow of communication between participants, rendering the interactions far from seamless. In this work we introduce Remote Proxemics, an extension of proxemics aimed at bringing the syntax of co-located proximal interactions to virtual meetings. We propose Eery Space, a shared virtual locus that results from merging multiple remote areas, where meeting participants' are located side-by-side as if they shared the same physical location. Eery Space promotes collaborative content creation and seamless mediation of communication channels based on virtual proximity. Results from user evaluation suggest that our approach is sufficient to initiate proximal exchanges regardless of their geolocation, while promoting smooth interactions between local and remote people alike.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-22698-9_43
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION - INTERACT 2015, PT III
Keywords
Field
DocType
Remote Proxemics, Virtual meetings, Collaboration
Computer science,Collaborative software,Proxemics,Geolocation,Communication channel,Human–computer interaction,Content creation,Rendering (computer graphics),Merge (version control),Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9298
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maurício Sousa1517.52
Daniel Mendes27312.97
Alfredo Ferreira317218.40
João Madeiras Pereira415321.06
Joaquim A. Jorge5100881.51