Enhancing distributed corporate meetings with lightweight avatars

Authors:
N. Sadat Shami;Li-Te Cheng;Steven Rohall;Andrew Sempere;John Patterson
Affiliations:
IBM Research, Cambridge, MA, USA;IBM Research, Cambridge, MA, USA;IBM Research, Cambridge, MA, USA;IBM Research, Cambridge, MA, USA;IBM Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
Venue:
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2010

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Abstract

The difficulties remote participants of distributed meetings face are widely recognized. In this paper we describe the design of an avatar-based e-meeting support tool named Olympus, which aims to ameliorate some of the challenges remote participants face in distributed meetings. Olympus provides a customizable peripheral display on the bottom of existing e-meeting solutions. An initial observational study was conducted of the use of Olympus in 6 meetings, three each of a status meeting and a presentation meeting. Avatars fostered team bonding through social play during status meetings, while minimalist dots allowed focused attention during presentation meetings.