Since online discussion platforms can limit the perception of social cues, effective collaboration over videochat requires additional attention to conversational skills. However, self-affirmation and defensive bias theories indicate that feedback may ...

Video chat continues to play an increasing role in the personal and professional lives of many people. When meeting someone for the first time via video chat, traditional icebreakers such as discussion questions may be used to ease conversation and ...

In this paper, we investigate the impact of various video enhancement techniques on the video chat user experience of people diagnosed with low vision. To this end, we present the results of an exploratory user study, in which participants with low ...

We introduce a novel video chat interface with a 360° photo as background in order to offer richer contextual and background information. We conduct a preliminary user evaluation in a lab setting. Paired participants were randomly assigned to two ...

In order to communicate with a person in a remote place, there are many means such as sending sentences, making a phone call, chatting by video. A contact system with a distant person becomes a communication tool through an avatar by a virtual reality ...

Video conferencing is often used to connect geographically distributed users and can be used to help them engage in a shared activity in a mobile setting for remote collaboration. One key limitation of today's systems however is that they typically only ...

This paper examines the effects of objective feedback of facial expression recognition on the operators of a video support chat system. We have built a facial expression feedback (FEF) system, which recognizes the users' facial expressions, and displays ...

We designed a videochat experience where one participant can experience a remote environment from a 360° camera. This allows the remote user to view and explore the environment without necessitating interaction from the local participant. We designed ...

Mobile video communication helps people connect with friends and families over distance. However, it is challenging to use existing commercial video chat systems (e.g., Skype, FaceTime) to prototype new types of futuristic experiences. Existing video ...

Video chat is a popular form of computer-mediated communication in a range of contexts from online job interviews to chatting with friends. Although seeing your own video feedback is the predominant interface design, self-awareness research suggests ...

Projector-camera (pro-cam) systems create virtual environments for remote interaction with audio and video support. However, previous pro-cam systems require custom hardware and thus have not been used at-scale in the field. In this work, we present a ...

Thanks to the maturity of motion tracking technologies, it became easy and inexpensive to use avatars that reflect the user's facial and body motions in real time. There is a possibility that those real-time avatars can serve as a substitute for videos ...

Minowe is an online community dedicated to teaching and learning Ojibwe, an American Indian language. Its goal is to enable certain Peripheral American Indians (defined below) to better connect with their American Indian communities. Building on prior ...

Video chat apps enable users to stay in touch with their family, friends and colleagues. However, they consume a lot of bandwidth and hence can quickly use up a monthly data plan quota, which is a high-cost resource on smartphones. In this paper, we ...

In this paper, we describe Papetto, a lightweight robotic arm that moves according to face detection techniques in order to mirror facial movements such as head shaking, leaning and tilting. Using this system we examine the role of the "frame" in video ...

Video chat programs for home and personal use (e.g., Skype) are becoming increasingly popular for doing more than simply conversing with a remote friend or family member. This creates a need to understand the broader use of video chat that moves "beyond ...

We present a novel approach that allows the user to feel the other's emotional status while communicating with each other in a video chat. The video chat is composed of physiological sensors and multimodal displays. In our first prototype, we employed a ...

As mobile video traffic is becoming dominant, balancing the mobile video quality and bandwidth usage is a relevant but hard problem. Particularly, in this project, we attempt to reduce the bandwidth usage of video chats through frame rate adaption. The ...

HomeProxy is a research prototype that explores supporting video communication in the home among distributed family members through a physical proxy. It leverages a physical artifact dedicated to representing remote family members to make it easier to ...

Personal video communication systems such as Skype or FaceTime are starting to become a common tool used by family and friends to communicate and interact over distance. Yet many are designed to only support conversation with a focus on display 'talking ...