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Designing and evaluating voice-based virtual communities

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CHI EA '10: CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1753846.1753896

Published: 10 April 2010 Publication History

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Voice-based virtual communities offer new possibilities for information dissemination and sharing for billions of users who lack access to Internet-connected PCs. As interaction is only through voice, these systems are subject to different design constraints than web-based social software. Through lab experiments and fieldwork, we have identified three key design challenges for voice-based virtual communities: supporting threaded conversations; indexing and searching content; and managing identity. We discuss each of these issues and propose approaches to address them. We also present plans to evaluate the impact of voice-based virtual communities on knowledge access and sharing in rural India.

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Index Terms

Designing and evaluating voice-based virtual communities
1. Hardware
  1. Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
    1. Sound-based input / output
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Sound-based input / output

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CHI EA '10: CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2010

2219 pages

ISBN:9781605589305

DOI:10.1145/1753846

General Chairs:
Elizabeth Mynatt
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Don Schoner
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Vienna University of Technology
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Scott Hudson
Carnegie Mellon University
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Keith Edwards
Georgia Tech
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Tom Rodden
University of Nottingham

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