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Everyday voice conversations require people to obey the turn-taking rule and to keep to a single topic thread; therefore, it is not always an effective way to communicate. Hence, we propose "ChaTEL," a voice communication system for facilitating real-time multithreaded voice communications. ChaTEL has two functions to support multithreaded communications: a function to indicate to whom the user talks and a function to indicate which utterance the user responds to. Comparing ChaTEL with a baseline system that does not have these functions, we show that multithreaded conversations occur more frequently with ChaTEL. Moreover, we discuss why ChaTEL can facilitate multi-threaded conversations based on analyses of users’ speaking and listening behaviors.
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Ogura, K., Nishimoto, K., Sugiyama, K. (2007). Exploration of Possibility of Multithreaded Conversations Using a Voice Communication System. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Intelligent Multimodal Interaction Environments. HCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4552. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73110-8_20
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