Karrie Karahalios presented some of her investigations for how to create “Social Catalysts”.
Her work is motivated by an interest in developing technologies that “catalyze interactions”, that can get people to talk. Her approach is to (a) explore social cues that are transmitted, (b) sense those cues, (c) visualize social patterns, and (d) encorporate all of the above into the media space. By doing this, she seeks to provide more cue variety, feedback, message personalization, turntaking, conversation repair, etc…
Here are four of her projects: (more…)
