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Re: Show HN: We built Callroulette, a chatroulette for phones

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Post by fletchowns »

matmann2001 wrote: post #15

Great, I can't wait to hear what the verbal equivalent of a man pleasuring himself sounds like.

Don't know that I agree with the downvoter. When I had tried Chatroulette after it first became popular it was literally like a 1 in 4 chance you are going to be looking at a dude masturbating. If you are going to go public with a system like this, you have to have an effective moderation system in place for it to even have a chance.

Re: Show HN: We built Callroulette, a chatroulette for phones

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Post by ericb »

jericsinger wrote: post #10

If you read through, this actually has a super interesting purpose. From the site: >Why are we doing this? Our research group is interested in the use of technology for development. We are building a low-cost, low-power cell phone base station platform for deployment in underserved areas. Once you set up your own cell phone tower, you can do a lot of cool things, like run a chatroulette service. In this particular pr…

> In this particular project, we are studying how choice and context affect the quality of online interactions

Sounds like a psych study to me...

Re: Show HN: We built Callroulette, a chatroulette for phones

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Post by theIntuitionist »

When I worked for the Exploratorium as an exhibit developer a few years ago, I wrote some software that operated a real life "game of telephone". A voice modem randomly called phone numbers. If somebody answered the system told them they where playing a real life game of telephone, and that they were about the hear the previous callers message and to repeat it after the beep. Messages were posted to a website. I looooved that project. Never really worked, though. Most people just hung up. I think if you tweaked on it, you could get it to work- perhaps by soliciting numbers from the site, so you were aware that such a system might call you, etc. Anyway, phone mayhem = fun!

Re: Show HN: We built Callroulette, a chatroulette for phones

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Post by prayag »

ericb wrote: post #22
jericsinger wrote: post #10

If you read through, this actually has a super interesting purpose. From the site: >Why are we doing this? Our research group is interested in the use of technology for development. We are building a low-cost, low-power cell phone base station platform for deployment in underserved areas. Once you set up your own cell phone tower, you can do a lot of cool things, like run a chatroulette service. In this particular pr…

> In this particular project, we are studying how choice and context affect the quality of online interactions Sounds like a psych study to me...

No these are one of the most talented Berkeley CS grad students working in the field of Information and Technology for Development (ICTD).

Re: Show HN: We built Callroulette, a chatroulette for phones

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Post by ScottWhigham »

prayag wrote: post #27
ericb wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In this particular project, we are studying how choice and context affect the quality of online interactions Sounds like a psych study to me...

No these are one of the most talented Berkeley CS grad students working in the field of Information and Technology for Development (ICTD).

I think ericb's exactly right. That wording - "In this particular project, we are studying how choice and context affect the quality of online interactions" - sounds like a psych study. If this isn't a psych study, why add that in there? Just to get funding?
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