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The SmartPhone: Interactive Group Audio with Complementary Symbolic Control

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Distributed Communities on the Web (DCW 2002)

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The SmartPhone provides a medium for distributed interactive group dialog by complementing an audio channel with a symbolic control channel. The control channel conveys information used for speaker identification, feedback, and turn taking. While these are conveyed visually in face-to-face meetings, their absence in purely audio systems limits the interactivity possible with such systems. Conveying control information symbolically avoids the bandwidth and other costs of video, while allowing novel modes of operation not possible in face-to-face meetings, e.g. anonymous feedback, prioritised turn taking and asynchronous skipping through meetings. The user interface to the control information is predominantly graphical.

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Tim Moors

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    John Plaice

  2. Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128 succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Peter G. Kropf

  3. Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Ulm, James Frank Ring 0-27, 89069, Ulm, Germany

    Peter Schulthess

  4. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1W5, Canada

    Jacob Slonim

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Moors, T. (2002). The SmartPhone: Interactive Group Audio with Complementary Symbolic Control. In: Plaice, J., Kropf, P.G., Schulthess, P., Slonim, J. (eds) Distributed Communities on the Web. DCW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2468. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36261-4_11

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