An empirical study of the use of visually enhanced voip audio conferencing: The case of IEAC

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1019-1028

  Ding, Xianghua ^a   Erickson, Thomas ^b   Kellogg, Wendy A ^b   Levy, Stephen ^b   Christensen, James E ^b   Sussman, Jeremy ^b   Wolf, Tracee Vetting ^b   Bennett, William E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Audio conferencing; Conference call; Social proxy; Social translucence; Social visualization; Telephony; Voice; VoIP

Indexed keywords

AUDIO CONFERENCING; CONFERENCE CALL; SOCIAL TRANSLUCENCE; SOCIAL VISUALIZATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

TELECONFERENCING;

EID: 35348840394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240780     Document Type: Conference Paper

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