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Title
ScoringTalk: A Tablet System Scoring and Visualizing Conversation for Balancing of Participation
Date
Tuesday, 03 November
Time
15:45 - 18:00
Location
Kobe Int’l Conference Center, Room 401, Level 4

ScoringTalk: A Tablet System Scoring and Visualizing Conversation for Balancing of Participation


We present a tablet system providing real-time feedback to participants of face-to-face multi-party conversation on the scores of talking. In multi-party conversation, sometimes one speaks too much or too little and is a problem because we cannot obtain enough information. Our system has a game element to break through such a conversation. The system measures and visualizes the statistical profiles of conversation: who speaks to whom, who watches whom, and cumulative times of them by using front and back cameras of a tablet which each participant has. The system also calculates the participants' scores based on the rules of the game; the participant gets points when speaking and listening, and loses points when too much speaking. Therefore, the participants talk while trying maximize their scores, and it makes a balanced conversation. We evaluated the system in a within-subjects experiment, where five minutes of three-person conversation about a topic of software development and the system recorded the utterance of the participants. The results of experiments suggest that our system adequately balances the participants' utterance amounts.

Presenter(s)

Hiroyuki Adachi , Ritsumeikan University

Seiko Myojin , Ritsumeikan University

Nobutaka Shimada , Ritsumeikan University

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