GAZO GAZO KUN: photo-sharing system using an anthropomorphic photo frame for communication support

Authors:
Takashi Yoshino;Tomoya Matsuo
Affiliations:
Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University, Wakayama City, Japan;Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University, Wakayama City, Japan
Venue:
OCSC'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Online communities and social computing
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Many photo-sharing websites do not actively promote communication among users of the website. We believe that a website that promotes viewing and commenting on shared photographs will better support communication and relationships between people who do not know each other. Therefore, we have developed a photo-sharing system, named GAZO GAZO KUN. This system has an anthropomorphic photo function (a photo agent), which actively supports communication among users. Our experiments compare GAZO GAZO KUN and a photo-sharing website in Japan, similar to Flickr. We found that the effect of promoting viewing and commenting on photographs in GAZO GAZO KUN is higher than that of the photo-sharing website.