Creating Personalized Memories from Social Events: Community-Based Support for Multi-Camera Recordings of School Concerts (original) (raw)

Creating Personalized Memories from Social Events: Community-Based Support for Multi-Camera Recordings of School Concerts

The wide availability of relatively high-quality cameras makes it easy for many users to capture video fragments of social events such as concerts, sports events or community gatherings. The wide availability of simple sharing tools makes it nearly as easy to upload individual fragments to on-line video sites. These shared fragments have the value of immediacy, but they are unable to capitalize on complementary content created by others. This article reports on a 10-month evaluation process intended to investigate socially-aware authoring tools. The results provide a set of guidelines for developing novel multimedia sharing applications, where relationships among people on both sides of the camera are important. The resulting prototype software enables community-based users to navigate through a large common content space and to generate highly personalized videos of targeted interest within a social circle. The videos are constructed from a collection of independent recordings of the event, managing the complex interpersonal relationships and time-variant social context within a community of diverse (but related) users. As part of the evaluation process, users were asked to reflect on the prototype application, based on their experiences on using it with their own content recorded at a high school concert. According to the results, a system like ours is a valid alternative for social interactions when apart.