Université de Fribourg

Computer-supported work in partially distributed and co-located teams: the influence of mood feedback

Sonderegger, Andreas ; Lalanne, Denis ; Bergholz, Luisa ; Ringeval, Fabien ; Sauer, Juergen

This article examines the influence of mood feedback on different outcomes of teamwork in two different collaborative work environments. Employing a 2 x 2 between-subjects design, mood feedback (present vs. not present) and communication mode (face-to-face vs. video conferencing) were manipulated experimentally. We used a newly developed collaborative communication environment, called EmotiBoard,...

Université de Fribourg

Description languages for multimodal interaction : a set of guidelines and its illustration with SMUIML

Dumas, Bruno ; Lalanne, Denis ; Ingold, Rolf

In: Journal on multimodal user interfaces, 2010, vol. 3, no. 3, p. 237-247

This article introduces the problem of modeling multimodal interaction, in the form of markup languages. After an analysis of the current state of the art in multimodal interaction description languages, nine guidelines for languages dedicated at multimodal interaction description are introduced, as well as four different roles that such language should target: communication, configuration,...