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Presence Based Play Towards a Design for Large Group Social Interaction
Techreport ID: kmi-03-13
Date: 2003
Author(s): Yanna Vogiazou and Marc Eisenstadt
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This poster addresses the fundamental research questions that guide our first steps in the design of innovative playful activities for large numbers of people, based primarily on their mere presence. Our research framework draws upon the areas of multiplayer games, instant messaging, social psychology and group behaviour. We introduce the concept of 'presence based play' to describe the way social interaction based on the simultaneous presence of many people can be enhanced as a meaningful and engaging experience in the networked world. Our design approach to 'presence based' multiplayer games is illustrated with a prototype which we developed to use as a testbed for a series of experiments.

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Appeared in: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Appliance Design (1AD), 6-8 May 2003, Bristol, UK.
 
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We focus on content-based information retrieval over a wide range of data spanning form unstructured text and unlabelled images over spoken documents and music to videos. This encompasses the modelling of human perception of relevance and similarity, the learning from user actions and the up-to-date presentation of information. Currently we are building a research version of an integrated multimedia information retrieval system MIR to be used as a research prototype. We aim for a system that understands the user's information need and successfully links it to the appropriate information sources, be it a report or a TV news clip. This work is guided by the vision that an automated knowledge extraction system ultimately empowers people making efficient use of information sources without the burden of filing data into specialised databases.

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