We are building tools for online interpersonal synchrony research and remote experiments. Below we have a couple of project you might be interested.
SynthARium is video conferencing platform that can be used by researchers to host their own custom remote experiments we presented at Ubicomp'23 in a poster paper[1].
Our synchrony-score is an initial attempt at quantifying interpersonal synchrony into a single quantifiable metric! We present a current initial synchrony score as a Late-Breaking-Work at CHI '23. You can read the paper here [2] or watch a short demo video about it:
While an ambitious task, we envision this score to one day be used by UI and Social XR researchers in their evaluation of social online interfaces and interactions which is why we are working on integrating it as a future filter in our experimental hub.
rPPG - One of the projects we will be including is work by a student who developed his own rPPG pipeline to be included in the experimental hub.
[1] Chloe Eghtebas, Alexander Liebald, Maria Pospelova, Ashika Manjunath, Julian Geheeb, Norma Puspitasari, Jamie A Ward, Gudrun Klinker. "An Experimental Video Conference Platform to Bridge the Gap Between Digital and In-Person Communication." Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing. 2023.
[2] Maximilian Henneberg, Chloe Eghtebas, Oliver De Candido, Kai Kunze, and Jamie A Ward. 2023. Detecting an Offset-Adjusted Similarity Score based on Duchenne Smiles. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 83, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585709