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An article from last year points to the continuing thrust forward with respect to the integration of technologies and sensory desires for the user, describing the inception of visual aspects into the protocol.
The 2007 article by Ding et al. is focused on the discourse, research and user-end needs which figured into the gradual integration of visual images indicating users status and allowing for the presentation of messaging. Based particularly upon the findings produced by a long-term observation of the patterns of usage for VOIP users, the study would produce a set of conclusions concerning the fashions of usage which have produced the integration of visualization into an already integrative protocol.
The article contends to "shed light on the factors that drive the use of visual enhancements to audio conferencing." (Ding et al., 1019) Among them, the article concludes that there is an impulse when using computer interface systems to be aided by the...
Particularly, the impulse to provide communication through a medium which is capable of voice, visual and packets of digital information denotes that it would be a wasted opportunity to ignore any of these sensory capabilities of the current technology. The article relates well to class material in this regard, helping to underscore the general premise that technology development is a natural byproduct of usage. In this case, a consideration of usage suggests that technology will develop according to the instincts of the user.
Ding, X.; Erickson, T.; Kellogg, W.A.; Levy, S.; Christensen, J.E.; Sussman, J.; Wolf, T.V. & Bennett, W.E. (2007). An empirical study of the use of visually enhanced voip audio conferencing: the case of IEAC. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1019-1028.
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