Places for Lightweight Group Meetings: The Design of Come Together

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dc.contributor.authorSun, Yiboeng
dc.contributor.authorGreenberg, Sauleng
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-17T15:43:42Z
dc.date.available2010-05-17T15:43:42Z
dc.date.issued2010-05-17T15:43:42Z
dc.description.abstractLightweight group meetings are opportunistic, ad hoc, or lightly planned gatherings characterized by the informal nature of their members and their tasks. Critically, they must be very easy to set up and maintain over time. We contribute the design of a system called Come Together, which supports lightweight, persistent meetings between distance-separated people. Its design is theoretically motivated by the Locales Framework, with features derived from the best of Instant Messengers and the Community Bar. The main motivation is that that any action must be simple and fast to do if it is to support lightweight group meetings. In particular, Come Together represents both people and their things as media items, which can be quickly brought together to form an ad hoc place. Places, which are persistent, can be presented in a variety of forms (e.g., as a stand-alone window, or as an element in a sidebar), with interaction mechanisms that let a person quickly adjust the degree of awareness he or she wishes to maintain of the place and its contents. A console collects all people, artifacts, and places in a manner akin to buddy lists, where these components can be used to rapidly compose the meeting place.eng
dc.description.refereedNoeng
dc.identifier.department2010-958-07eng
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/30733
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/47821
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisher.corporateUniversity of Calgaryeng
dc.publisher.facultyScienceeng
dc.subjectDesigneng
dc.subjectHuman Factorseng
dc.subjectComputer-supported collaborative workeng
dc.subject.otherAd hoc group formation, awareness, casual interaction, distributed groupware, placeseng
dc.titlePlaces for Lightweight Group Meetings: The Design of Come Togethereng
dc.typetechnical reporteng
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceeng
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