Thesis Project
Remote Encounter
Mediating ambient presence for remote social groups
Abstract
Perceiving the ambient presence of others becomes a challenge when social groups such as families, learning groups, and work groups transition into remote forms. The need for intimate communication, serendipitous encounters, and simply the plural forms of the presence of others are unmet with existing remote communication tools. Although technology advancement brings about proliferating communication tools, little has gone beyond a dominant visual and linguistic paradigm. How might we design plural forms of medium to support remote ambient presence for remote social groups? The project investigated 5 values that are important in remote communication, and created 5 experience prototypes to address and evaluate these values.
Yiwei Huang, Advised by Dina El-Zanfaly
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experiment to investigate the perception of presence of spatial audio, and visual capture from collectively generated content.
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Contact
Lab Director:
Dina El-Zanfaly
delzanfa@andrew.cmu.edu
School of Design, MM207
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
USA