KIMURA Hitoshi (Kobayashi laboratory), a second-year student of the master’s course in the Frontier Media Science Program, Graduate School of Advanced Mathematical Sciences, received the GN Research Award and the HCI Contribution Award.
The GN Research Award recognizes one or two outstanding papers each year presented at research meetings, international conferences, and workshops organized by the Collaboration and Network Services Research Group (and its predecessor, Groupware and Network Services Research Group) of the Information Processing Society of Japan.
The HCI Contribution Award is given when the same presenter makes three or more presentations in a year at the Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction of the Information Processing Society of Japan, and significant contributions are recognized in each presentation.
Research content:
Teleconferencing has advantages such as reduced commuting time and cost, reduced risk of infectious diseases, and environmental protection. On the other hand, “speech conflict” frequently occurs in which two or more people speak at the same time owing to video and voice delay and the limited amount of nonverbal information available. It has been reported that participants experience significant stress in teleconferences where this phenomenon occurs frequently. To solve this, the study proposed a method to make participants perceive speech conflict positively, with the aim of reducing the stress caused. Concretely, it proposed "a method in which a positive signal is displayed on the screen when a button is pressed in the event of speech conflict" and "a method in which a positive sign is automatically displayed in the event of speech conflict," and reported the evaluation results at the above-mentioned meetings.
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