The Design of Come Together Places for light-weight group meetings Yibo Sun and Saul Greenberg University of Calgary Note. This slide deck was used as.

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