Raconteur: integrating authored and real-time social media
07 May 2011-pp 3165-3168
TL;DR: Raconteur is presented, which introduces a new style of social media combining aspects of the real-time and authored styles of communication, structured around a text chat, augmented by an agent that continuously interprets the chat text to suggest appropriate media elements to illustrate the story.
Abstract: Social media enables people to share personal experiences, often through real-time media such as chat. People also record their life experiences in media collections, with photos and video. However, today's social media force a choice between real-time communication, and authoring a coherent story illustrated with digital media. There is simply not enough time in real-time communication to select and compose coherent multimedia stories. We present Raconteur, which introduces a new style of social media combining aspects of the real-time and authored styles of communication. It is structured around a text chat, augmented by an agent that continuously interprets the chat text to suggest appropriate media elements to illustrate the story. A small experiment shows that storytellers find Raconteur's suggestions helpful in presenting their experiences, and audiences find the interaction engaging.
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