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A Vehicle for Research: Using Street Sweepers to Explore the Landscape of Environmental Community Action
Paul M. Aoki, R. J. Honicky, Alan Mainwaring +4
Researchers are developing mobile sensing platforms to facilitate public awareness of environmental conditions. However, turning such awareness into practical community action and…
Sabbath Day Home Automation: "It's Like Mixing Technology and Religion"
Allison Woodruff, Sally Augustin, Brooke Foucault
We present a qualitative study of 20 American Orthodox Jewish families' use of home automation for religious purposes. These lead users offer insight into real-life, long-term expe…
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…
Making Space for Stories: Ambiguity in the Design of Personal Communication Systems
Paul M. Aoki, Allison Woodruff
Pervasive personal communication technologies offer the potential for important social benefits for individual users, but also the potential for significant social difficulties and…
Detecting User Engagement in Everyday Conversations
Chen Yu, Paul M. Aoki, Allison Woodruff
This paper presents a novel application of speech emotion recognition: estimation of the level of conversational engagement between users of a voice communication system. We begin…
Conversation Analysis and the User Experience
Allison Woodruff, Paul M. Aoki
We provide two case studies in the application of ideas drawn from conversation analysis to the design of technologies that enhance the experience of human conversation. We first p…