Lock-on-Chat: Boosting Anchored Conversation and its Operation at a Technical Conference.

Abstract

This paper introduces a text-based chat system Lock-on-Chat, designed to support conversations anchored to specific locations of shared images and reports our experience in operating it at technical conferences. Our system is unique in that it focuses on supporting communications scattered around among multiple images, while other systems for anchored conversations are designed for deeper discussions within a single document. Our system was used at technical conferences as a space for anchored conversations over presentation slides and we observed that audiences actively participated in discussions during the presentation. Lock-on-Chat was used in many ways in response to various presentations. © 2006, Japan Society for Software Science and Technology. All rights reserved.