Bridging social distance during social distancing: exploring social talk and remote collegiality in video conferencing

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Background

This article is based on multi-party remote social talk on video conferencing.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

¹ https://miro.com/

² A colloquialism for ‘mother’.

³ https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/microsoft-teams-together-mode/

⁴ https://ohyay.co/

⁵ https://hubs.mozilla.com/

⁶ https://www.gather.town/

⁷ https://www.polly.ai/slack-poll

Additional information

Funding

Funding for this work comes from the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Digitally Enhanced Reality (D-REAL) under Grant No. 18/CRT/6224 and ADAPT SFI Centre for Digital Content Technology, funded by Science Foundation Ireland through the SFI Research Centres Programme and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through Grant # 13/RC/2106_P2

Notes on contributors

Anna Bleakley

Anna Bleakley ([email protected]) is a PhD candidate in the School of Information and Communication Studies with an interest in multi-party conversational interfaces and the future of work.R

Daniel Rough

Daniel Rough ([email protected]) is a Lecturer in Computing at the University of Dundee, with an interest in end-user programming of conversational interfaces.

Justin Edwards

Justin Edwards ([email protected]/JustinHCI) is a PhD candidate in the School of Information and Communication Studies with an interest in multitasking with conversational agents.

Philip Doyle

Philip Doyle ([email protected]) is a PhD candidate in the School of Information and Communication Studies with an interest in human-machine dialogue.

Odile Dumbleton

Odile Dumbleton ([email protected]) is a PhD candidate in the School of Information and Communication Studies with an interest in museum informatics and digital curation.

Leigh Clark

Leigh Clark ([email protected]) is a Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction at Swansea University with an interest in speech interface interaction.

Sean Rintel

Sean Rintel ([email protected]) is a Principal researcher at Microsoft with an interest in the future of work.

Vincent Wade

Vincent Wade ([email protected]) is a Professor of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin’s School of Computer Science and Statistics with an interest in personalization and conversational technologies.

Benjamin R. Cowan

Benjamin R. Cowan ([email protected]) is a Associate Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies with an interest in conversational user interfaces and computer-mediated dialogue.