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Collaborative video searching on a tabletop

Smeaton, Alan F. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1028-8389, Lee, Hyowon orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-4395-7702, Foley, Colum and McGivney, Sinéad (2006) Collaborative video searching on a tabletop. Multimedia Systems, 12 (4-5). pp. 375-391. ISSN 0942-4962

Abstract
Almost all system and application design for multimedia systems is based around a single user working in isolation to perform some task yet much of the work for which we use computers to help us, is based on working collaboratively with colleagues. Groupware systems do support user collaboration but typically this is supported through software and users still physically work independently. Tabletop systems, such as the DiamondTouch from MERL, are interface devices which support direct user collaboration on a tabletop. When a tabletop is used as the interface for a multimedia system, such as a video search system, then this kind of direct collaboration raises many questions for system design. In this paper we present a tabletop system for supporting a pair of users in a video search task and we evaluate the system not only in terms of search performance but also in terms of user–user interaction and how different user personalities within each pair of searchers impacts search performance and user interaction. Incorporating the user into the system evaluation as we have done here reveals several interesting results and has important ramifications for the design of a multimedia search system.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Additional Information:The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
Uncontrolled Keywords:tabletop systems; DiamondTouch; video search system; user collaboration;
Subjects:Computer Science > Multimedia systems
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP)
Research Initiatives and Centres > Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC)
Publisher:Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00530-006-0064-7
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland, SFI 03/IN.3/I36
ID Code:210
Deposited On:04 Mar 2008 by DORAS Administrator . Last Modified 09 Nov 2018 11:05
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