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MirrorBlender: Supporting Hybrid Meetings with a Malleable Video-conferencing System

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In hybrid meetings, multiple co-located participants communicate with remote participants through video. But video communication inhibits non-verbal cues, and this often causes remote participants to feel excluded. To address this issue, we built MirrorBlender: a What-You-See-Is-What-I-See video-conferencing system for blending, repositioning, and resizing mirrors. Mirrors here denote shared video feeds of people and screens. In a qualitative study of MirrorBlender with three hybrid meeting sessions, we found that the shared control of mirrors supported users in negotiating a blended interpersonal space. Moreover, it enabled diverse acts of inclusion of remote participants. In particular, remote participants brought attention to themselves by manipulating the position, scale, and translucency of their camera and screen feeds. Participants also embodied and leveraged their mirror images for deictic gestures and playful interactions. Based on these fndings, we discuss new opportunities for supporting video-mediated collaboration.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems : Making Waves, Combining Strengths
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Publication yearMay 2021
Article number451
ISBN (Electronic)9781450380966
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2021
Event2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Japan
Duration: 8 May 202113 May 2021

Conference

Conference2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021
LandJapan
ByVirtual, Online
Periode08/05/202113/05/2021
SponsorACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)
SeriesConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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    Research areas

  • Blended interaction spaces, Hybrid meetings, Inclusive meetings, Shareable dynamic media, Video conferencing

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