SCS ’06 – Lightning Round 3: Interactions in Online “Spaces” – Part 6
Speaker Details
Karrie Karahalios is a PhD student with Prof. Judith Donath in the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. Her work focuses on the interaction between people and the social cues they perceive in networked electronic spaces. Of particular interest are interfaces for pubic online and physical gathering spaces such as chat rooms, cafes, parks, etc. The goal is to create interfaces that enable users to perceive conversational patterns that are present, but not obvious, in traditional communication interfaces.Her current thesis work involves integrating social catalysts into the design of interfaces for connecting spaces using audio and video. Previous projects include: Visiphone, a communication object that visualizes conversation patterns between two spaces; Hear&There, an augmented reality interface for placing sound envelopes in space and retrieving them with an audio interface; Chit Chat Club, a hybrid social space that combines the immediacy of the traditional cafe with the global reach and easy introductions of an online chat.Karrie completed a S.B. in electrical engineering, an M.Eng. in electrical engineering and computer science, and an S.M. in media arts and science at MIT.
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- Speakers:
- Karrie Karahalios
- Affiliation:
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Jeff Running
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