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The Design of Come Together Places for light-weight group meetings
Yibo Sun and Saul GreenbergUniversity of Calgary
Note.This slide deck was used as part of the presentation at the ACM Group Conference. It does not include the videos, which are scenes extracted from the video figure associated with this paper. That video is available at:http://grouplab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/Publications/2010-ComeTogetherVideo.Report2010-979-28
The message
People must be able to quickly bring together other people and their things to form a place for light-weight meetings
Light-weight meetings
Informal, casual, opportunistic and somewhat ad-hoc
– awareness of people– easy engagement with little cost– involves artefacts and tools– persistence of meeting places– proximity and social context– centre/peripheral involvement
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Light-weight meetings
Locales Framework (Fitzpatrick)
– locales: social worlds, sites & means– center/periphery principle– mutuality and awareness– individual views– interaction trajectories– Civic structure
Instant Messengers
People-focused awareness
awareness of people
easy engagement with little cost– involves artefacts and tools– proximity and social context
persistence of meeting places
centre/peripheral involvement
Media Spaces
People-focused awareness
awareness of people
easy engagement with little cost
involves artefacts and tools– proximity and social context– persistence of meeting places– centre/peripheral involvement
Community Bar McEwan, 2006
Sidebar metaphor
Community Bar McEwan, 2006
Place“mike test”
Place“ilab”
Place“G-place”
Place“CSCW class”
Groupware places
Community Bar McEwan, 2006
Places collect people & things
Community Bar McEwan, 2006
• Drill down awareness
sidebartooltipgrandefull view
Come Together
console / buddy list Place windowPlace strip
media items
Creating a Light-weight Meeting
What the other person sees
Structure of a meeting place
Another Light-weight Place
Leaving a Place
A Bigger Place
From Public to Private Places
Preliminary Evaluation
12 individual participants– scenario walkthrough: think-aloud– interview
Results– generally positive– could improve
• withdrawal process too heavy-weight• public nature of a place only works with certain communities
Summary
People must be able to quickly bring together other people and their things to form a place for light-weight meetings
Console
Rapid Place Creation
Center / Periphery Awareness