I had a chance to see Terry Brooks in Eugene, Oregon a few weeks ago. WOW!
Terry is the author of the Shannara series of books. When I was a little kid, he was literally the… read more
Virtual Worlds, Real Use
- By 2012 (Gartner):
- 80% of Internet users will have avatars
- Half of US companies will have “networked virtual environments”
- Not games at all
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read moreQuestions for the day:
- Are virtual teams doomed?
- Are some tasks better suited for virtual teams?
- Do collaborative tools help virtual teams? Why / How?
What do distant teams lack that radically collocated teams have
- Context of
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read moreI was driving to work this morning and WFIU (NPR / Campus Station) was playing some classical music that REALLY reminded me of Final Fantasy Tactics. Now if you don’t know me well, you might be thinkin, “God that sounds…
read moreWhy should we study co-located collaboration
- Face to face is the richest method of communication
- Get more done interacting directly
- Interaction with the artifacts
- To make the technology more human centric, you have to observe the humans
Leskovec, Jurij and Adamic, Lada and Huberman, Bernardo. The Dynamics of Viral Marketing.
“Viral Marketing exploits existing social networks by encouraging customers to share product information with their friends.”
It has been difficult, the authors say, to measure…
read moreConversation analysis
used commonly in sociology (in ethnomethodoloy)
Can be used to analyze transcripts. In analyzing the transcript, you will be able to see how they “cope” with what they are working with.
If you can understand the normal…
read moreAwareness
An understanding of the activities of others, which provides a context for your own activity.
Key Components:
Context
The information (of what other people around you around doing)
The information is CRITICAL because this is the way…
read moreSpace and Time
The fact that we call things things is a social construct, as language is socially constructed.
Space, according to Dourish, is NOT an objective thing. Our understanding of space and where they are can impact our…
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