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 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
Conversation 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…
read moreResearch Paper Overview Due Feb 17 (see assignments on Oncourse)
Recap of group project last Thursday
Re-Space-ing Place: “Place” and “Space” Ten Years On
– Media Space –
- EXAMPLE: Put a camera in an office.
- The camera
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A Surprise Birthday Party for Erik Stolterman
- Find a suitable date
- Find out his birthday
- Virtual or in person?
- Guest List
- Find a location / space
- Find a Theme
- Swedish
- Outside (COLD) [There’s no place like
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read moreDistributed Cognition (DCog) – Hutchins 2000, Hollan, Hutchins, & Kirsh 2000
A unit of measurement to gauge observations they made of the conversations that took place among the crew of a flight simulator’s cockpit.
DCog sees cognitive processes…
read moreHarper
Human v. Human and Human v. Technology
The problem with a lot of systems in CSCW is that they model the process, not what is “actually” going on.
Ethnography
- Study of people in a natural environment
- Usually
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