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ABSTRACT

Social media websites like flickr and del.icio.us enable collaboration by allowing users to easily share content on the web through tagging. To provide a similar advantage to the enterprise, we have designed a tagging system for audio conversations. We are developing telephonic interfaces, where participants of a spoken conversation can opt to archive and share it. We have also developed a web-based visual interface that enables annotation, search, and retrieval of archived conversations. In this interface, we have focused on visualizing relationships between users, tags and conversations, which will enable efficient searching and browsing, and more importantly, provide contextualized interaction histories. A pilot user study, conducted using simulated data, showed that our social network visualization was effective.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
audio, context-aware computing, interaction design, social media, user experience, user interface design, user-centered design / human-centered design, visualization