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McEwan, G. and Greenberg, S. (2005)
Community Bar Places for Collaboration. In Luigina Ciolfi, Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Liam Bannon (Eds.) Workshop Proceedings Settings for Collaboration: The Role of Place, held in conjunction with ECSCW’2005, Paris, September 18.
Type: Refereed workshop.
Additional materials: Poster shown at main conference included at end of paper.
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Abstract.
Community Bar is groupware supporting informal awareness and casual interaction for small social worlds: groups of people with common purposes. Its conceptual design is primarily based on a sociological theory called the Locales Framework, with extra details supplied by the Focus/Nimbus model of awareness. Community Bar supports how communities of ad-hoc and long-standing groups are built and sustained within multiple locales: electronic spaces that offer groups the site and means for maintaining awareness of one another and for rapidly moving into interaction. This includes a person’s lightweight management of his or her membership in multiple locales, as well as ones varying engagement with the people and artefacts within them.