Talk Like Somebody is Watching: Understanding and Supporting Novice Live Streamers

Terrance Mok, Colin Matthew Au Yeung, Anthony Tang, and Lora Oehlberg. (2020). Talk Like Somebody is Watching: Understanding and Supporting Novice Live Streamers. In EA IMX 2020: Extended Abstracts of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences.

Abstract

We built a chatbot system–Audience Bot–that simulates an audience for novice live streamers to engage with while streaming. New live streamers on platforms like Twitch are expected to perform and talk to themselves, even while no one is watching. We ran an observational lab study on how Audience Bot assists novice live streamers as they acclimate to multitasking–simultaneously playing a video game while performing for a (simulated) audience.

Materials

PDF File (http://hcitang.org/papers/2020-imxposter-mok-audiencebot.pdf)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{mok2020audiencebot,
  author = {Mok, Terrance and Au Yeung, Colin Matthew and Tang, Anthony and Oehlberg, Lora},
  booktitle = {EA IMX 2020: Extended Abstracts of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences},
  title = {Talk Like Somebody is Watching: Understanding and Supporting Novice Live Streamers},
  type = {poster},
  year = {2020},
  pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2020-imxposter-mok-audiencebot.pdf}
}