CS Colloquium on Aug. 22 at 11am

Title: The Beneficial and Harmful Effects of Videoconferencing

Speaker: Milton Chen, Stanford University
         http://graphics.stanford.edu/~miltchen/

Date: August 22 (Friday)
Time: 11am 
Place: MCS 135

Abstract:

Existing videoconferencing systems often subtly distort conversational cues
such that the person, rather than the medium, is viewed with negative
attributes. For example, a delayed response due to video transmission may
cause the person to be viewed as slow. Lip movements not synchronized with
speech due to video compression may cause the person to be viewed as less
credible. And difficulties with eye contact due to camera placement may
cause the person to be viewed as unfriendly. In this talk, I will describe
original empirical findings and novel algorithms for conveying floor
control hand gestures, lip movements, and eye contact over the video
medium.

Biography of the Speaker:

Milton completed his PhD in Human Computer Interaction at Stanford
University in June 2003.  Milton is supervised by Prof. Pat Hanrahan
and Terry Winograd.  During the keynote address at the Fall 2002 Intel
Developer Forum, Intel President Paul Otellini demonstrated the video
conferencing software Milton developed for his thesis.

Hosts: Michael Krugman and Azer Bestavros (http://www.cs.bu.edu/~best)