CoolBeans: Using Technology to Encourage Real-World Informal Interaction
Dee, Charlotte, McMahon, Craig, Hambley, Leander and Lord, Chris (2007) CoolBeans: Using Technology to Encourage Real-World Informal Interaction.
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Description/Abstract
Informal interaction is considered an important part of the work ethic and process in business and academia. We found that the new facilities for a computer science department at the University of Southampton were not conducive to this, and designed a technology-based solution to improve social awareness and encourage interaction using a presence-aware application and web interface. Users could use the system to find out who was taking a break and to invite others to do so. Initial results suggest that the project both encouraged social activity and became a popular fixture in the area on which efforts were focused.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Technical Report) |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Supervised by mc schraefel and Kirk Martinez |
| Keywords: | awareness, remote awareness, social engagement, coolbeans, instant messaging, hci, evaluation |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science |
| Item ID: | 264755 |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Oct 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2012 19:40 |
| Contributors: | Dee, Charlotte (Author) McMahon, Craig (Author) Hambley, Leander (Author) Lord, Chris (Author) |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Additional Information: | Supervised by mc schraefel and Kirk Martinez |
| Status: | Published |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/264755 |
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