With so much valuable information that can be gleaned from video, it stands to reason that discussing and collaborating around this medium should be as simple as working with text documents in Google Docs. People need to work together, both to create videos and to collaborate around  its contents. And their efforts need to be specific, detailed and  unambiguous. 

The Video Collaboratory platform grew out of a 3-year collaboration among computer scientists, dancers and designers to create interactive choreographic work with real-time sensing technology. The National Science Foundation has provided four grants for the development of the platform that will  be demonstrated using video material created at the conference as well as video linked from Youtube or Vimeo that has a relation to the conference theme.  

General platform architecture with Work Spaces and Projects with sub-folders, video thumbnails with identifying information and a directory of people involved in the project will be shown along with the ease of navigation. Features such as color-coded markers that correspond to the comments in the thread, automatic looping, segment selection, downloading comments, filtering and analytics will be introduced for participants who may benefit from these features.

Examples will be shown from a variety of use cases with featured benefits for the group members. Perhaps it is the creation of a project between two companies where time and distance make it impossible to work co-located. Maybe it is a group project in a higher education human-computer interaction course. Perhaps it is a salesperson working with an expert coach in another locale to perfect a sales pitch. Or it could be that favorite aunt who wants input from others about videotaped locations and rental homes for the annual reunion. 

Since its "reel-to-reel" inception, video has offered new pathways of creativity and avenues of knowledge distribution.This presentation will  focus on making video "more than just watching"  as it shows ways to connect, converse and collaborate with this  this ubiquitous medium that is an increasingly important force in changing our world.

 

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