GColl : A Flexible Videoconferencing Environment for Group-to-Group Interaction
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 5727 |
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| Web | http://www.springerlink.com/content/m2m7765262268120/ |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03658-3_22 |
| Field | Informatics |
| Keywords | Videoconferencing - CMC - Gaze Awareness - Mutual Gaze - Partial Gaze Awareness - Mixed Presence - Presence Disparity |
| Description | In this paper, we present GColl, a group-to-group videoconferencing environment concept, which aims to provide a natural communication channel even for ad-hoc groups or other teams that require frequent changes in the number of participants or videoconferencing locations. GColl supports mutual gaze as well as partial gaze awareness for all participants while still retaining very modest technical requirements: a camera and an echo-canceling microphone at each site; and a laptop with two USB cameras for each user. A working prototype is available for download. |