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Where's the "Party" in "Multi-Party"? Analyzing the Structure of Small-Group Sociable Talk
Paul M. Aoki, Margaret H. Szymanski, Luke Plurkowski +3
Spontaneous multi-party interaction - conversation among groups of three or more participants - is part of daily life. While automated modeling of such interactions has received in…
The Mad Hatter´s Cocktail Party: A Social Mobile Audio Space Supporting Multiple Simultaneous Conversations
Paul M. Aoki, Matthew Romaine, Margaret H. Szymanski +3
This paper presents a mobile audio space intended for use by gelled social groups. In face-to-face interactions in such social groups, conversational floors change frequently, e.g.…
Practical Strategies for Integrating a Conversation Analyst in an Iterative Design Process
Allison Woodruff, Margaret H. Szymanski, Rebecca E. Grinter +1
We present a case study of an iterative design process that includes a conversation analyst. We discuss potential benefits of conversation analysis for design, and we describe our…
Eavesdropping on Electronic Guidebooks: Observing Learning Resources in Shared Listening Environments
Allison Woodruff, Paul M. Aoki, Rebecca E. Grinter +3
We describe an electronic guidebook, Sotto Voce, that enables visitors to share audio information by eavesdropping on each other's guidebook activity. We have conducted three studi…
Sotto Voce: Exploring the Interplay of Conversation and Mobile Audio Spaces
Paul M. Aoki, Rebecca E. Grinter, Amy Hurst +3
In addition to providing information to individual visitors, electronic guidebooks have the potential to facilitate social interaction between visitors and their companions. Howeve…
The Guidebook, the Friend, and the Room: Visitor Experience in a Historic House
Allison Woodruff, Paul M. Aoki, Amy Hurst +1
In this paper, we describe an electronic guidebook prototype and report on a study of its use in a historic house. Supported by mechanisms in the guidebook, visitors constructed ex…