Visualizing remote voice conversations

Online voice conversations are becoming ever more popular. People have been logging online text conversations, but what about voice conversations? Walter Ong simply states, "written words are residue. Oral tradition has no such residue or deposit" [6]. However, we do not just want to archive conversations, we want to enable users to have some meaning in these "logs". We introduce a project that takes a remote conversation and visualizes it. It does so in a way that takes volume, pitch and content into account. With this information, the visualizations display the data in a meaningful way. Users can use these images in the future to review past conversations whether it is for nostalgia's sake or to recall some piece of information. In this paper, we describe the early design and iteration of system for archiving and creating artifacts from remote audio conversations. Keywords Conversation, social visualization, Skype, VoIP, archival, artifacts, remote audio, co...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Pooja Mathur, Karrie Karahalios
• Keywords: CHI 2009, Computer Science Urbana, Human Computer Interaction, Online Voice Conversations, Remote Audio Conversations