Models for decision making in video mediated communication

TY - GEN

T1 - Models for decision making in video mediated communication

AU - Weiss, Wolfgang

AU - Falelakis, Manolis

AU - Kaiser, Rene

AU - Ursu, Marian F.

PY - 2014/11/16

Y1 - 2014/11/16

N2 - There is an abundance of players in the domain of video communication, offering systems for various purposes and different capabilities. However, these systems are still very limited in adapting the visual presentation of the remote participants to the participants' needs. In this paper we describe the components, the implementation and the overall behaviour of an automatic decisionmaking system for video communication, known as Orchestration Engine. This system analyses the communication behaviour of the participants and applies TV-like mixing grammars adapt the user interface accordingly. The behaviour is implemented as a set of rules, divided into different levels and fulfilling aesthetic and pragmatic requirements. This rule set is defined declaratively, facilitating the adjustments/modifications in desired behaviour, while proving fast enough for real-time decision making.

AB - There is an abundance of players in the domain of video communication, offering systems for various purposes and different capabilities. However, these systems are still very limited in adapting the visual presentation of the remote participants to the participants' needs. In this paper we describe the components, the implementation and the overall behaviour of an automatic decisionmaking system for video communication, known as Orchestration Engine. This system analyses the communication behaviour of the participants and applies TV-like mixing grammars adapt the user interface accordingly. The behaviour is implemented as a set of rules, divided into different levels and fulfilling aesthetic and pragmatic requirements. This rule set is defined declaratively, facilitating the adjustments/modifications in desired behaviour, while proving fast enough for real-time decision making.

KW - Automatic decision making

KW - Communication orchestration

KW - Video mediated group communication

KW - Videoconferencing

KW - Telepresence

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84919398913&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/2666242.2666250

DO - 10.1145/2666242.2666250

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:84919398913

SN - 9781450306522

SP - 45

EP - 50

BT - UM3I 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Workshop on Understanding and Modeling Multiparty, Multimodal Interactions, Co-located with ICMI 2014

PB - ACM

T2 - ICMI 2014 Workshop on Understanding and Modeling Multiparty, Multimodal Interactions, UM3I 2014

Y2 - 16 November 2014 through 16 November 2014

ER -