Paper Info
Title
The break-time barometer: an exploratory system forworkplace break-time social awareness
Abstract
The Break-Time Barometer is a social awareness system, which was developed as part of an exploratory study of the use of situated sensing and displays to promote cohesion in a newly-dispersed workplace. The Break-Time Barometer specifically aims to use an ambient persuasion approach in order to encourage people to join existing breaks, which take place within this community. Drawing upon a privacy-sensitive ubiquitous sensing infrastructure, the system of-fers information about potentially break-related activity in social spaces within this workplace, including alerts when specific events are detected. The system was developed using a user-centered iterative design approach. A qualitative mixed methods evaluation of a full deployment identified a diverse set of reactions to both the system and the design goal, and further elaborated the challenges of designing for social connectedness in this complex workplace context.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2493432.2493468
UbiComp
Keywords
Field
DocType
user-centered iterative design approach,social space,social awareness system,complex workplace context,break-time barometer,social connectedness,newly-dispersed workplace,ambient persuasion approach,exploratory system forworkplace break-time,system of-fers information,design goal,social awareness
Situated,Social connectedness,Software deployment,Persuasion,Computer science,Social consciousness,Human–computer interaction,Iterative design,Barometer,Exploratory research
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
0.84
16
Authors
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Reuben Kirkham17611.64
Sebastian Mellor2885.29
David Green3979.19
Jiun-Shian Lin4212.11
karim ladha520912.22
Cassim Ladha627516.07
daniel jackson732021.37
Patrick Olivier83049230.82
Peter Wright91645203.56
Thomas Ploetz10102074.42