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Juho Kim
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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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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
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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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Andy Matuschak
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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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Yoonjoo Lee
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Oops I deleted it :( We also could see that "creator's screen visible" affects the viewer's learning. Some people said that they are more motivated when the contents of the study are shown together, while others felt too many visual transitions by being visible are distracting.
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