Collaborative video searching on a tabletop |
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Authors: | Alan F Smeaton Hyowon Lee Colum Foley Sinéad McGivney |
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Affiliation: | (1) Centre for Digital Video Processing and Adaptive Information Cluster, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland |
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Abstract: | Almost all system and application design for multimedia systems is based around a single user working in isolation to perform
some task yet much of the work for which we use computers to help us, is based on working collaboratively with colleagues.
Groupware systems do support user collaboration but typically this is supported through software and users still physically
work independently. Tabletop systems, such as the DiamondTouch from MERL, are interface devices which support direct user
collaboration on a tabletop. When a tabletop is used as the interface for a multimedia system, such as a video search system,
then this kind of direct collaboration raises many questions for system design. In this paper we present a tabletop system
for supporting a pair of users in a video search task and we evaluate the system not only in terms of search performance but
also in terms of user–user interaction and how different user personalities within each pair of searchers impacts search performance
and user interaction. Incorporating the user into the system evaluation as we have done here reveals several interesting results
and has important ramifications for the design of a multimedia search system. |
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