midterm presentation prore12 group four may 2, 2012 vienna university of technology

Part I

In which environment and context does comm. take place?

Are there differences between online and offline comm?

Are there differences in comm. between cultures or genders?

Are there already any established async. comm. systems?

Where does async. comm. make sense - where not?

literature research

– “Das Medium ist immer Teil der Nachricht.” Markus Pichlmair

“Interessant sind Projekte, in denen auch die Umgebung mit einem in Verbindung tritt” – Peter Fröhlich

– “Frauen müssen klar ausdrücken und Männer besser zuhören.”

Kathrin Masuch

interviews

Part II

video analysis

Where does communication take place?

Emotion in verbal and textual communication?

Communication technologies in use?

Communication 'in the wild'?

relying on voice

impressions

Audio description helpful

Desperation

Satisfaction

chat

impressions

Anonymous: less emotional, language barriers

Skype chat: more emotional, emoticons not very exciting

Skype call: strong reactions, technical limitations

audio tourist info

impressions

Used very irregularly

People rely more on text (next to guide)

Doesn't seem to attract people

communication technologies

impressions

ICT is ubiquitous

Permanent switching between ICT

Physical communication suffers

cultural probes

Find contradictions and boundaries

Perception of audio vs. text

#1 interpretation of speech and text

#2 instructed by speech and text

#1: speech vs. text

"Der feine Herr Hader setzt sich nicht mit dem Pöbel in die

Fahrschule!"

#2: lego

cultural probes

Rollout this week

Students as candidates

Results collected directly

lessons learned & findings

Topic very widespread

Find niches

Multimodality as option

Motivated to go on :)

thanks!