Y! Brain Jam
Milan Andric
Organized by Mor, see Upcoming.com for events
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/search/?q=brain+jam&search_placeid=SVrAMtCbAphCLAtP
1) Caregie Mellon, Justin Weisz
Video watch + chat, Mystery Science 3000
Joost
social features
im feeds ratings chat
Justin.tv
cam + mic on head and broadcasts
Is this a good idea? Tv+ chat
chatting while watching could be bad or good
chat is distracting
Movielens.org practical
#2 Authorable Virtual Peers for Children with Autism from NWestern Univ
Andrea Tartaro
Center for Tech and Social Behavior
1 in 150 kids have autism - shocking
Designing a virtual peer .. allowing kids to build their own virtual peer
3d peer
tells stories
works autonomously
She is designing one for childrens with autism.
Autisme is characterized by
Social Interacation
Imagination
Social Communitcation
Focusing on high function
Pragmatics are difficult for these individuals
don't share, initiatve, expand or elaborate on topics
Interventions
Tech
Peer
Narrative
Virtual peers combine the approaches
Technology has natural appeal for these children, they love computers.
Social Interaction
Turn taking
Imagination
Inventing Stories
Soical Communication
Addressing pear beliefs. taking on roles.
How do children with autism differ
How do they interact with human vs virtual
Results to design an intervention for autism with virtual peers
Focus: You can learn alot from your peers
Video example ... of child interacting with virtual peer and normal/known peer
Pragmatic measures
- contingency
- add new information
- questions
Child with autism performs some skills better with virtual peer
contingency with virtual peer is much better
more information
Does the interaction imporve with real peers?
Take a new direction. Scaffold the children.
Give them control and allow them to construct the virtual peer. Let
them observe and participate.
Showing: "Mary" controls Sam
Mary is selecting and conversing appropriately
Evaluation
Do interactions with VP improve over time?
Howd do children interact with VP over time?
Do these interactions translate into improvments with real peers?
Conlusion:
Research propposes a novel way to construct social interaction ...
HCI Conventional
Human behavior studies
This is a new approach
http://articulab.northwestern.edu
#3 Sharing motion information with close family and friends
Frank Bentley and Crysta Metcalf
Motorola Labs
Common HCI and CSCW problems
Availablity
Social Awareness
When is it ok to call someone, what is their schedule?
Ambient Mobile Commincation
Implicit Sharing
Visible Sharing
Information at a glance
Theres some existing commercial solutions with some problems
Inspiration came from looking at IM
acitve vs idle
patterns are recognized by idle/active
little privacy concerns
Could moving or in a place be tracked like this. what can be extracted
from this little bit of info.
Motion Presence Application
moving or not moving and for how long
using celid transition algorithms
mostly for friends and family
simple, no usibility issues
Implementation
sms
Interesting results, little privacy concerns. People wanted a little
more information.
I'm fading out, not very relevent.
#4 Design a mobile user interfacef or automated species identification
Sean White
Start thinking about plants
You saw a plant and are trying to figure out what that plant is.
Identify plants.
30,000+ unidentified species
Identification can take months or years
Species disappear faster than they can be studied.
Bring the herberium out into the world. So people don't need to go to
the smithsonian to identify a new species and id plants.
Enter LeafView
Computer vision algo
Take a photo, id the leaf based on morphology
Collect info and choose best match
Zoomable interface, Virtual voucher
Works with bluetooth with most common digital cameras
Wowing the crowd with cool plant id interfaces. I'm impressed.
#5) EyePoint
Manu Kumar
I'm leaving now, I'm haven't found anyone that might be interested in
our project.
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Milan