KIMURA Hitoshi, a second-year master’s student in the Frontier Media Science Program at the Graduate School of Advanced Mathematical Sciences (KOBAYASHI Minoru Laboratory) received the Student Incentive Award at the 204th Special Interest Group on Human Computer Interaction (held by Hokkaido University from August 8 to 9, 2023).
This award is presented to a select number of outstanding presentations (0 to10% of the eligible presentations) chosen from the student presentations at the Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction of the Information Processing Society of Japan
The title of the award-winning presentation is "Proposal of a speech conflict affirmation button aimed at reducing stress in remote meetings." This research focuses on the phenomenon of ''speech conflicts,'' where the starts of speeches by multiple people overlap, with the aim of reducing the stress it causes. A system called the "speech conflict button" was proposed on the hypothesis that this research objective could be achieved by encouraging meeting participants to have a positive perception of the occurrence of "speech conflicts." This system allows meeting participants to press a button within the web application when they feel that a speech conflict has occurred, displaying a positive signal on the screen. Evaluation of the effectiveness of this system showed that it can reduce some of the stress caused by speech conflicts.
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