PhotoChat
Yasuyuki Sumi, Jun Ito and
Toyoaki Nishida
Communication Support System
based on Sharing Photos and Notes
Graduate School of Informatics,
Kyoto University
[email protected]
Implementation
Objective
Facilitating communication among users who
want to exchange daily experiences by sharing
photos and notes
picture
management
input: camera
- Knowledgeable communication at museum, conference,
trade-show, etc.
- Chatting and note sharing at meeting
- Collaborative learning
another machine
another machine
another machine
another machine
database
distribution
control
Photos and pen
strokes are
distributed to
other machines by
an ad-hoc wireless
network in real
time
note
management
input: tablet
output: display
Peer-to-peer connection
without a server
User Interface
Example
③ This is a “Dashi” wheel
(float for a parade).
④ Does anyone set
her watch slow??
① What is this?
⑤ I don’t think so.
Updated:
photo having
unread notes
User name & time
photo taken
② I found it
What’s this?
(><)/
④ Where can
I find it?
② I set three
minutes fast my
watch.
① The correct time is 15:47.
③ Me, too!
⑤ Center of exhibition
area “South Asia”.
Color depth
represents
how many
notes written
on photos
Question and answering between
museum visitors and curator
Browsing & note mode
⑥ I don’t have
a watch…
⑦ That’s why
you came late.
Chat while a meeting
Switching
modes
Chosen
photo by
user
Other users
browsing
photo
New:
incoming
photo
Camera mode
- Intuitive interface like a
digital camera
- Showing awareness of
other users
Sharing
photos and
notes on
the Web
Meeting records
Improvisational quiz
at a museum
Mapping photos at museum and zoo
“Blackout” game
invented by children
Hyperlinking
Casual summarization of experiential knowledge
by hyperlinking photos
Caricature of scenes
Ongoing & future work
Jumping to photo
by clicking
thumbnail
Linking thumbnails by drag and drop
- Analyzing “multimodal”
pattern during conversation
and collaborative annotation
- Porting to more casual
devices, e.g., mobile game
player, digital camera,
mobile phone, etc.