CoolBeans: Using Technology to Encourage Real-World Informal Interaction
CoolBeans: Using Technology to Encourage Real-World Informal Interaction
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.
awareness, remote awareness, social engagement, coolbeans, instant messaging, hci, evaluation
Dee, Charlotte
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McMahon, Craig
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Hambley, Leander
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Lord, Chris
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2007
Dee, Charlotte
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McMahon, Craig
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Hambley, Leander
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Lord, Chris
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Dee, Charlotte, McMahon, Craig, Hambley, Leander and Lord, Chris
(2007)
CoolBeans: Using Technology to Encourage Real-World Informal Interaction
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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.
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Published date: 2007
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Supervised by mc schraefel and Kirk Martinez
Keywords:
awareness, remote awareness, social engagement, coolbeans, instant messaging, hci, evaluation
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Electronics & Computer Science
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Local EPrints ID: 264755
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/264755
PURE UUID: 40ba31e6-bf03-4186-89c5-298d409231ac
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Date deposited: 26 Oct 2007
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 07:55
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Author:
Charlotte Dee
Author:
Craig McMahon
Author:
Leander Hambley
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Chris Lord
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