RocConf - Fall 2015
Project Overview
Problem Statement
The use of video conferencing software has become quite common in many different aspects of people’s lives, from professional interactions to personal interactions and everything in between. This has allowed for connectivity and the exchange of information over distances not possible before hand. With this connection and sharing of information also comes an opportunity to extend the possibilities of software such as Skype, Zoom, and other communication tools.
In addition to just interacting and sharing information with other users, what if it were possible to get automated feedback on a conversation?
Solution
The software that can sit as an intermediary between two conferencing users already exists through the ROC HCI lab. This software extracts facial expression data, the conference's transcript as well as other features in its JSON output.
Our proposal for this project is to handle several elements of design and analysis in order to obtain an effective tool that could be integrated into video conferencing software. Our goal is to create a clean interface that can display to a user many different metrics for a conversation after the meeting - and potentially in real time. The interface should be as intuitive as possible, conferencing software such as Skype remains well within the domain of novice users, and we hope to keep such a feedback system in this same domain.
System Requirements
- User Interface - Design and Implementation of a Web Based interface for display of video analysis. The interface has to be intuitive about the video playback tool and provide feedback in a simple but effective format.
- Feedback Schema - A listing of public and private information that can be displayed to users of the system.
- Feedback Generation - Analysis of the Video and Audio data captured by the intermediary system to fill in the display schema. Some of this is done, although there is a possibility for extending the analysis if necessary.
- User Study - Design and implementation of a user study to determine the effectiveness of the prototype.
Timeline
Group meetings: Fridays at 5:00pm and after class on Mondays
Group Members
Jeffrey White
Project Manager / Developer
jwhite37[@]ur.rochester.edu
Renan Zanelatto
Frontend Developer / Designer
rzanelat[@]ur.rochester.edu
Zhiming Chen
Backend Developer
zchen36[@]u.rochester.edu
Yue (Bella) Wang
Frontend Developer
ywang214[@]ur.rochester.edu
Ye (Eric) Wang
Backend Developer
ywang139[@]u.rochester.edu
Jiaming (Vicent) Su
Backend Developer
jsu11[@]ur.rochester.edu
Project Mentor
Ru Zhao