ChatScape: a visual informal communication tool in communities

  • Authors:
  • Yuji Ayatsuka;Nobuyuki Matsushita;Jun Rekimoto

  • Affiliations:
  • Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN;Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN;Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN

  • Venue:
  • CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001
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    SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

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Abstract

Informal communication in a community is as important as formal meetings. We propose to support on-line informal communication by a visual communication tool, named ChatScape. A message on ChatScape is made of short text and still images. Short text messages are suitable for informal communication, and snapshots of users adds presence and hints of contexts.