GColl: A Flexible Videoconferencing Environment for Group-to-Group Interaction

  • Authors:
  • Petr Slovák;Pavel Troubil;Petr Holub

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 60200 and CESNET, z.s.p.o, Prague, Czech Republic 16000;Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 60200 and CESNET, z.s.p.o, Prague, Czech Republic 16000;CESNET, z.s.p.o, Prague, Czech Republic 16000

  • Venue:
  • INTERACT '09 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part II
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we present GColl, a group-to-group videoconferencing environment concept, which aims to provide a natural communication channel even for ad-hoc groups or other teams that require frequent changes in the number of participants or videoconferencing locations. GColl supports mutual gaze as well as partial gaze awareness for all participants while still retaining very modest technical requirements: a camera and an echo-canceling microphone at each site; and a notebook with two USB cameras for each user. A working prototype is available for download.