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These study with me videos are so interesting that we wrote a paper about them: "Personalizing Ambience and Illusionary Presence: How People Use “Study with me” Videos to Create Effective Studying Environments" to appear at #chi2021 kixlab.github.io/website-files/

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Andy Matuschak

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· Apr 28, 2021

This college student has been live-streaming his daily study sessions for the past year, 12 hours straight, every day: youtube.com/c/JamesScholz/ He’s not narrating or providing funny commentary like a typical Twitch streamer. It’s just: you watch him study, very intently!

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Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Apr 29, 2021

Thank you—this was quite interesting. I hadn’t considered the virtual-ambiance-creation mechanism, but it resonates. So many commenters talking about “vibe.”

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Regarding the features (2.2.2): I was surprised that “creator’s screen visible” didn’t show up as a salient feature. I notice that I feel quite different watching a stream where I can see that the creator is e.g. deep in a textbook vs. where I just see their face. WDYT?

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Andy Matuschak

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Apr 29, 2021

Super interesting, thanks!

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Thanks for your interest in our paper! Actually, we also considered that in our first coding, but while verifying them, we adopted features that can be clearly distinguished. For screens, it was ambiguous as they varied on the degree or the way shown.