Exploring the Effects of Audience Visibility on Presenters and Attendees in Online Educational Presentations

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dc.contributor.authorMarlow, Jennifer
dc.contributor.authorWiese, Jason
dc.contributor.authorAvrahami, Daniel
dc.contributor.editorLewkowicz, Myriam
dc.contributor.editorRohde, Markus
dc.contributor.editorMulder, Ingrid
dc.contributor.editorSchuler, Douglas
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-04T19:54:11Z
dc.date.available2019-04-04T19:54:11Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractVideo conferencing is widely used to help deliver educational presentations, such as lectures or informational webinars, to a distributed audience. While individuals in a dyadic conversation may be able to use webcam streams to assess the engagement level of their interlocutor with some ease, as the size of the audience in a video conference setting increases, it becomes increasingly difficult to interpret how engaged the overall group may be. In this work, we use a mixed-methods approach to understand how presenters and attendees of online presentations use available cues to perceive and interpret audience behavior (such as how engaged the group is). Our results suggest that while webcams are seen as useful by presenters to increase audience visibility and encourage attention, audience members do not uniformly benefit from seeing others' webcams; other interface cues such as chat may be more useful and informative engagement indicators for both parties. We conclude with design recommendations for future systems to improve what is sensed and presented.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/3083671.3083672
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4503-4854-6
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherACM Press, New York
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
dc.subjectEngagement
dc.subjectPresentation
dc.subjectVideo conferencing
dc.titleExploring the Effects of Audience Visibility on Presenters and Attendees in Online Educational Presentationsen
dc.typeText/Conference Paper
gi.citation.endPage86
gi.citation.startPage78
gi.conference.dateJune 26-30, 2017
gi.conference.locationTroyes, France
gi.conference.sessiontitleLong Papers
mci.conference.reviewfull

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