Spatial and social connectedness in web-based work collaboration
conference paper
The work presented here seeks an integration of spatial and social features supporting shared activities, and engages users in multiple locations to manipulate realtime video-streams. Standard and easily available equipment is used together with the communication standard WebRTC. It adds a spatial quality of experience by representing the users anywhere on the screen, with easily changed diverse backdrops, inviting users to co-design a shared mediated space. User studies show that a seamless integration of space, social dynamics and shared activity benefits the experience of presence, naturalness, immersion/engagement and social connectedness. The results inform a discussion about spatial and social connectedness, stressing the importance of design to integrate architectural/spatial features and support complex social dynamics in mediated interaction.
Topics
Audio/video communicationDesignImmersionMediaMediated spaceNaturalnessPresenceSocial connectednessSpatial connectednessWebRTCComputer supported cooperative workDesignInteractive computer systemsQuality of serviceVideo streamingAudio/video communicationImmersionMediaMediated spaceNaturalnessPresenceSocial connectednessSpatial connectednessWebRTCGroupware
TNO Identifier
535110
ISBN
978-1-4503-3950-6
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Source title
19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016, 26 February 2016 through 2 March 2016, San Francisco, USA
Pages
45-48
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