ACM HotMobile 2013 demo: bringing in-situ social awareness to mobile systems: everyday interaction monitoring and its applications

Abstract

Does our smartphone help at a variety of social gatherings in our everyday life, for instance, having dinner with family and meeting friends? For a few recent years, smartphones have been rapidly penetrating to our everyday lives. Yet, it is still at an early dawn that the smartphone applications and systems are closely immersed into everyday social activities. We share so many moments and activities with other people right here, right in front of us, and so will smartphones [4]. We argue that, many, in-situ co-presenting smartphones serve as a newly emerging substrate to accommodate whole new in-situ social applications. These applications have huge opportunity in every facet in our daily lives, e.g., providing new user experiences or facilitating social interactions during shared social activities. They could also take advantage of the larger, more capable union of computing devices and resources. In this demo, we introduce a novel initiative toward everyday face-to-face interaction monitoring system. Among diverse verbal, aural, visual cues expressed during face-to-face interaction, we first focus on capturing diverse meta-linguistic information from