The Conversation published my article on the problems of Airtime, the new Facebook video chat service.
Source: Airtime
I argue that Airtime offers little that is new, it’s not on board the group video chat zeitgeist, and it has significant privacy issues.
Read the full article @
Rintel, S. (2012, June 18). Airtime’s Facebook video service gambles on the kindness of strangers. The Conversation (Online).
Also syndicated in:
Rintel, S. (2012, June 21). Facebook’s funniest home video service. Technology Spectator (Online).
Related:
- Rintel, S. (2011, July 12). Face to Facebook: can video chat get over its hangups?The Conversation (Online).
- Rintel, E.S. 2010. Conversational management of network trouble perturbations in personal videoconferencing. In Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction (OZCHI ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 304-311. DOI: 10.1145/1952222.1952288
- Rintel, S. 2007. Maximizing environmental validity: remote recording of desktop videoconferencing. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: interaction design and usability (HCI’07), Julie A. Jacko (Ed.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 911-920. DOI: 10.1145/1952222.1952288
