Vialogues presentation at ICALT'12

Submitted by Megha Agarwala on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 4:22am.
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My presentation was in a session called the "Video Session". The session was in a small room of seating capacity for 25 people. The room was mostly full.

The questions/feedback I received were mostly on the tool itself and less so much on the analysis:

- Does it work on mobile phone?

- How do you show the discussion on the mobile phone since there is only as much space for the video ?

- Where do you host videos?

- Do the Youtube video someone pulls up, also gets stored on your server ?

- What about users uploading copyright content ?

- Is this free? How do you manage costs of hosting videos ?

- How is this different from youtube?

- How many users did you have when you started the study?

- Who were these users ?

- Can you discuss live video lectures ? That would be weird because then nobody would attend the lectures.

- What would I have to do to use it in my class ?

Later, I chatted with a teacher from New Zealand and he told me that he would introduce it at his school to see if children like it. He said that last time he introduced Prezi and children loved it and have been using it since.

The keynote speaker from day one, Adrian David Cheok, was also there in the session and also told me that he really liked the tool and would try it out.

-- Updates on other presentations soon

The conference day was yesterday and it was followed with a social dinner at a restaurant slightly outside the city. We had a nice 3 course meal which lasted three hours. Funny thing, Italian servers don't disturb you while eating and so everything was served as slow as it could possibly be. :|



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Pranav Garg Says:
Tue, 07/10/2012 - 8:29am

Its great to know insights of what the users demand, this will help us in getting to the next level for vialogues.
Anything in specific they asked for the research paper, how did Vialogues fared as compared to other video sessions.


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Megha Agarwala Says:
Wed, 07/11/2012 - 4:50pm

Hey Pranav, There was another interesting presentation on a tool called Synote which is an open source web based annotation application. It uses speech recognition to synchronize audio or video recordings of lectures or prerecoreded teaching material with a transcript, slides and images and notes. You can capture your own recording or replay recordings public on the web. Further, notes taken in class on mobile phone or laptop using twitter can be directly uploaded to synote. They say their tool has simplified transcription process, as manual transcribing and synchronizing a lecture recording is very expensive and time consuming. Further, they use crowd sourced speech recognition for transcript correction to constantly improve on their error rates (unlike Youtube and other tools which only allow one person to correct a transcription at any given point).


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Zhou Zhou Says:
Fri, 07/06/2012 - 2:51pm

Hi Megha, thank you for sharing the audience questions! They are all very, very inspring! I wish I knew how many people are interested in the features of mobile compatibility, live video conferencing, etc. This is the market research I always want to do to decide the next steps of Vialogues!

Adrian David Cheok's profile seems impressive! I'm glad he was interested in the tool!

Enjoy the rest of the trip and Italian cuisine!


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Kate Meersschaert Says:
Fri, 07/06/2012 - 9:26am

Megha,

Wow! It sounds like the presentation as Jo mentions, was advantageous from a user acquisition standpoint! Also, it is interesting that the audience questions seem to mimic the lean startup methodology rubric that Michelle intro'd - as in what problems is the tool solving & value proposition etc. Interesting that as we predict for NLT, mobile is the future device for experiencing content!

Enjoy the rest of your adventure and I am excited for a full report when we are both back at the lab!


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Joann Agnitti Says:
Fri, 07/06/2012 - 9:51am

Indeed re: mobile being the future. Check out Rebekah's latest Research Digest for more on the trend.


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Joann Agnitti Says:
Fri, 07/06/2012 - 9:11am

Megha, congratulations on giving the presentation! Now you can just relax and enjoy the rest of your trip :)

It seems like the trend among recent (all?) Vialogues prezos is that people tend to ask more questions about the tool than about the research done around the tool. On one hand, it's great for user acquisition; on the other, I wish they would acknowledge the fruits of your research labor!

Thank you (and Sharon) for conducting and preparing this study and for promoting Vialogues to potential users. Brava!


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Megha Agarwala Says:
Wed, 07/11/2012 - 4:56pm

Hi Jo,

Yea, that could also be because Vialogues was itself born out of some great research.
So even after we substantiate it with evidence data, the emphasis is still somewhat on the tool. But, anyways it was definitely a well received presentation. The Grazi slide in the end made everyone smile :)