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Rounding, M., Greenberg, S. and Carpendale, S. (2000)
Awareness Projected: Moving Awareness to a Public Space. In Proceedings of the Western Computer Graphics Symposium 2000. (Panorama Mountain Village, BC, Canada), March 26-29.
Type: Refereed conference (full paper).
Also as: Report 2000-652-04, March.

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Abstract.
This paper concerns the design of public displays that project casual awareness information, where passerby’s quickly acquire a sense of who in a small group is around and available. After describing what we mean by casual awareness, we present several prototype designs. In particular, we take awareness information
garnered from a small group inhabiting a physical environment and abstract it onto a scene. We use the Three-Dimensional Pliable Surfaces visualization technique to emphasize people’s particular activities.

Keywords: casual interaction, awareness, visualization, distortion.