{"title":"Exploring the Effects of Audience Visibility on Presenters and Attendees in Online Educational Presentations","authors":"Jennifer Marlow, Jason Wiese, Daniel Avrahami","doi":"10.1145/3083671.3083672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3083671.3083672","url":null,"abstract":"Video conferencing is widely used to help deliver educational presentations, such as lectures or informational webinars, to a distributed audience. While individuals in a dyadic conversation may be able to use webcam streams to assess the engagement level of their interlocutor with some ease, as the size of the audience in a video conference setting increases, it becomes increasingly difficult to interpret how engaged the overall group may be. In this work, we use a mixed-methods approach to understand how presenters and attendees of online presentations use available cues to perceive and interpret audience behavior (such as how engaged the group is). Our results suggest that while webcams are seen as useful by presenters to increase audience visibility and encourage attention, audience members do not uniformly benefit from seeing others' webcams; other interface cues such as chat may be more useful and informative engagement indicators for both parties. We conclude with design recommendations for future systems to improve what is sensed and presented.","PeriodicalId":320659,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133893609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of Participatory Social Mapping in the struggle of the territory and the right to the city: A case study in Buenos Aires","authors":"Manuel Portela, Lucía Paz Errandonea","doi":"10.1145/3083671.3083676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3083671.3083676","url":null,"abstract":"We present a case study of Social Mapping and Participatory Cartography over a shaded territory in Buenos Aires City, Argentina. The project \"Caminos de la Villa\" was possible thanks to the collaboration of multiple NGOs that worked together to provide visibility on development issues in poor neighborhoods, commonly called \"Villas\" and \"Asentamientos\". We take a critical perspective on how developing such tools are embedded of expectation, negotiations and interactions between actors. Doing ethnographic research and documentation analysis, we found that the value for residents is not in the tool itself but in the appropriation process and empowering, led by acquiring new knowledge at working collectively.","PeriodicalId":320659,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134411189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cláudia Silva, Valentina Nisi, Joseph D. Straubhaar
{"title":"Share yourself first: exploring strategies for the creation of locative content for and by low-literacy communities","authors":"Cláudia Silva, Valentina Nisi, Joseph D. Straubhaar","doi":"10.1145/3083671.3083698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3083671.3083698","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores motivations and strategies for fostering the production of locative storytelling among underserved communities, specifically the demographic group of Latinos facing the legacy of racial segregation in central Texas. We report on the findings from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the context of a community computer training program provided by a non-profit organization that partnered with us. We trained a group of adults in locative and mobile media and asked them to choose meaningful locations in the neighborhood in which they live and produce related written stories. Results from the study shed light on the motivations (or lack of) for participating in locative media practices, highlighting in particular that individual mentorship and rapport-building through the sharing of personal content are key strategies in engaging these communities in locative media in general and content sharing specifically.","PeriodicalId":320659,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114832494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpersonal Influence in Viral Social Media: A Study of Refugee Stories on Virality","authors":"Osama Mansour, Nasrine Olson","doi":"10.1145/3083671.3083681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3083671.3083681","url":null,"abstract":"The expansion of social media use has enabled massive and rapid spreadability of content, which is often referred to as virality. Earlier studies have examined various aspects of virality such as the attributes of stories that become viral. In this on-going study we aim to make a better sense of the role of interpersonal influences in the spreadability of viral social media content. In this, we are inspired by Tarde's views on interpersonal processes and the notion of imitation. Considering the recent mass migrations, and numerous viral stories that have related to the plight of refugees, we chose a group of Syrian refugees consisting of men and women as the participants for this study. In twelve in-depth qualitative interviews we learned about the participants' views on viral stories as well as the way in which their interpersonal influences may play a role in their interaction with viral stories. The findings show that the views on migrant-related viral stories varied among the participants, but a common view seemed to be somewhat of scepticism about the agenda behind the spread of these stories. As part of the study, we identified four key interpersonal influences including community conversation, formative consciousness, community boundaries, and retrospective experiences. A main conclusion in the study is that although back-end technical issues, content attributes, emotions and so on may play a role in virality, still human agency, connections and interpersonal ties play a major role in shaping the process that leads to content spreadability, hence virality.","PeriodicalId":320659,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114436581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David G. Hendry, Norah Abokhodair, R. Kinsley, J. Woelfer
{"title":"Homeless Young People, Jobs, and a Future Vision: Community Members' Perceptions of the Job Co-op","authors":"David G. Hendry, Norah Abokhodair, R. Kinsley, J. Woelfer","doi":"10.1145/3083671.3083680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3083671.3083680","url":null,"abstract":"We report on an empirical study where neighborhood stakeholders' views of the Job Co-op future vision were investigated. Taking on the values of a grassroots service agency, while also drawing on emerging practices of peer-to-peer sharing systems, the Job Co-op matches homeless young people, up to age 30, to suitable jobs and job sponsors. Community members were invited to engage the future vison at a streetfair exhibition, comprising a carnival wheel of barriers and solutions to homelessness for beginning conversations; a storyboard for introducing the design vision; and a questionnaire for eliciting feedback. Qualitative analysis of 71 collected questionnaires explicated the socio-technical design space for addressing the problem of youth, homelessness, and jobs. The method demonstrates the use of exhibition design for constructing a design-oriented social context---for community engagement, for educational outreach, for disseminating research and design possibilities, for conducting research, and for cooperative design.","PeriodicalId":320659,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies","volume":"289 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122404282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maurizio Teli, P. Antoniadis, C. Bassetti, S. Paoli, Ileana Apostol, Giovanni Allegretti, M. Secchi
{"title":"Participatory Design, beyond the local","authors":"Maurizio Teli, P. Antoniadis, C. Bassetti, S. Paoli, Ileana Apostol, Giovanni Allegretti, M. Secchi","doi":"10.1145/3083671.3083715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3083671.3083715","url":null,"abstract":"This workshop aims at stimulating and opening a debate around the capacity of Participatory Design (PD) and other co-design approaches to deliver outcomes and methodologies that can have an impact and value for reuse well beyond the local context in which they were originally developed. This will be achieved by stimulating the submission of position papers by researchers from the PD community and beyond. These papers will be discussed during the workshop in order to identify challenges, obstacles but also potentials for scaling up PD processes and results from the local to the global.","PeriodicalId":320659,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130572551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies","authors":"M. Foth, J. Kjeldskov, J. Paay","doi":"10.1145/3083671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3083671","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to the southern hemisphere, welcome to Australia, welcome to Brisbane, welcome to QUT Urban Informatics, and welcome to the 5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies: C&T 2011. \u0000 \u0000As both technology and technological practice evolve in turn, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has expanded its focus from the design and assessment of particular interaction styles to encompass the role that interactive systems play in connecting people and communities with their world. The focus of HCI is no longer on the stationary user moored to a fixed desktop PC in an organisational context. Rather, the user is constructed as fluid and mobile, interacting with people and technologies across a broad range of contexts. \u0000 \u0000Communities as a social unit are increasingly important in a knowledge-based society. Issues and trends such as political activism with social media, citizen journalism, citizen science, crowd sourcing, community enagement, working across cultures, online deliberation, and civic intelligence all require a profound understanding of communities and community interactions. \u0000 \u0000Recognising these issues and trends early on, the Communities & Technologies conference has become the key international forum stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on these complex connections between communities - both physical and virtual - and information and communication technologies. After the inaugural conference in Amsterdam in 2003, followed by Milan in 2005, Michigan in 2007, and Pennsylvania in 2009, this is the first time that this biennial event takes place in the southern hemisphere and outside Europe and the U.S.","PeriodicalId":320659,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127675528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}