Eghtebas, Chloe; Liebald, Alexander; Pospelova, Maria; Manjunath, Ashika; Geheeb, Julian; Puspitasari, Norma; Ward, Jamie A and Klinker, Gudrun. 2023. 'An Experimental Video Conference Platform to Bridge the Gap Between Digital and In-Person Communication'. In: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing (UbiComp/ISWC ’23 Adjunct). Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico 8-12 October 2023. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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With many contemporary video conferencing platforms available, there is still a need for platforms that afford a researcher workflow to conduct controlled online experiments. We have developed an open source experimental video conferencing platform that enables researchers to design and conduct remote experiments. Our platform provides a high level of control over the user interface and video streams, which is essential for studying the differences between remote and in-person social interactions. We give an overview of our platform’s usage and architecture and conduct a take-home study (N=9) to evaluate how accessible our system is to potential new contributors. We also follow up with an initial evaluation of technical performance bottlenecks for when our experimental platform is deployed, and show that the computational resources increases per each video stream as well as the type of filters applied to each participant. We end with a short discussion on next steps and the experimental hub’s potential to be extended as a sandbox for testing browser based augmented reality (WebAR) filters to be adopted in interdisciplinary experimental procedures.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1145/3594739.3610686
Additional Information:	"© 2023 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record is available at, https://doi.org/10.1145/3594739.3610686." This work is partly supported under the Leverhulme Trust, and the Academies APEX award (APX\R1\201093).
Keywords:	Video Conferencing, WebAR, Remote User Studies
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Computing
Dates:	Date Event 8 October 2023 Published 8 September 2023 Accepted 8 June 2023 Submitted
Event Location:	Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Date range:	8-12 October 2023
Item ID:	34345
Date Deposited:	16 Nov 2023 17:45
Last Modified:	17 Nov 2023 01:33
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34345

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