Designing a video-mediated collaboration system based on a body metaphor

  • Authors:
  • Hiroshi Kato;Keiichi Yamazaki;Hideyuki Suzuki;Hideaki Kuzuoka;Hiroyuki Miki;Akiko Yamazaki

  • Affiliations:
  • C&C Media Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan;Faculty of Liberal Arts, Saitama University, Urawa, Saitama, Japan;C&C Media Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan;Institute of Engineering Mechanics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan;Media Laboratories, Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd., Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan;Nursing School of Douai Hospital, Oomiya, Saitama, Japan

  • Venue:
  • CSCL '97 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Computer support for collaborative learning
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Optimum arrangement of communication resources for a distance education system to support collaborative learning, including hand-manipulation of physical objects, was empirically investigated. The authors propose a 'body metaphor' concept, which follows the ordinary body arrangement in everyday instruction. It allows: (1) to display instructor's pointer; (2) to display instructor's face; (3) to display views of learner's orientation; (4) to arouse learner's awareness of being watched by the instructor; and (5) to dispose communication resources apart enough so as to clarify the learner's orientation. Comparative experiments revealed that body metaphor setting supported smoother collaboration than the conventional face-to-face metaphor setting.