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McEwan, G. and Greenberg, S. (2005)
Community Bar: Designing for Awareness and Interaction. In Workshop on Awareness systems: Known Results, Theory, Concepts and Future Challenges – held at ACM CHI’05. Organized by Panos Markopoulos, de Ruyter, Boris, and Mackay, Wendy, April.
Type: Refereed workshop.
Earlier version: compiled in Report 2005-772-03, February.
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Abstract.
The Community Bar is a groupware tool supporting informal awareness and casual interaction for small communities of intimate collaborators. Its conceptual design is primarily based on a comprehensive sociological theory called the Locales Framework, with extra details supplied by other theoretical model of awareness. It is also influenced by the Microsoft SideShow system: it displays basic awareness information in a space-conservative sidebar, and reveals progressively more information through a series of transient large tooltips and pop-up windows.
Keywords: CSCW, informal awareness, casual interaction.