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Raconteur: integrating authored and real-time social media

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CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 3165 - 3168

https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979411

Published: 07 May 2011 Publication History

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Social media enables people to share personal experiences, often through real-time media such as chat. People also record their life experiences in media collections, with photos and video. However, today's social media force a choice between real-time communication, and authoring a coherent story illustrated with digital media. There is simply not enough time in real-time communication to select and compose coherent multimedia stories.

We present Raconteur, which introduces a new style of social media combining aspects of the real-time and authored styles of communication. It is structured around a text chat, augmented by an agent that continuously interprets the chat text to suggest appropriate media elements to illustrate the story. A small experiment shows that storytellers find Raconteur's suggestions helpful in presenting their experiences, and audiences find the interaction engaging.

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CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/1978942

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Microsoft Research
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University of Saskatchewan
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PARC
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