Supporting Social Worlds with the Community Bar
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2005-05-18
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The Community Bar is groupware supporting informal awareness and
casual interaction for small social worlds: a group of people with a common
purpose. Its conceptual design is primarily based on a comprehensive
sociological theory called the Locales Framework, with extra details supplied
by the Focus/Nimbus model of awareness. Design nuances are strongly influenced
by observations and feedback supplied by a community who had been using both
the Community Bar and its Notification Collage predecessor for a total of five
years. As a consequence, Community Bar s design supports how communities of
ad-hoc and long-standing groups are built and sustained within multiple
locales: places that offer a group the site and means for maintaining
awareness of one another and for rapidly moving into interaction. This
includes a person s lightweight management of his or her membership in
multiple locales, as well as ones varying engagement with the people and
artefacts within them.
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Computer Science