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People go about their daily tasks with an in-built awareness of their social and physical environments. This awareness helps them to work cooperatively in groups, coordinate actions, and to maintain and enhance social communication with others. Networked technology has extended the reach of people's awareness to remote and distributed groups and provided access to a much larger social network than was previously feasible.
Awareness systems that are designed to support people to build up, maintain and make use of these extended networks are attracting the interest of industry, and include buddy lists in instant messaging, sustained audio-video links, active contact lists on mobile phones and so forth.
This book contains contributions from leading researchers in the field and looks at the design of awareness systems from theoretical foundations through to empirical studies and design concepts and will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in the field of HCI.
List of contents
AWARENESS IN CONTEXT.- An Historical Reflection of Awareness in Collaboration.- A Design Framework for Awareness Systems.- Awareness in the Home: The Nuances of Relationships, Domestic Coordination and Communication.- THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES.- Making Sense of What Is Going on 'Around': Designing Environmental Awareness Information Displays.- Social Inference Through Technology.- Abstractions of Awareness: Aware of What?.- Phatic Interactions: Being Aware and Feeling Connected.- Privacy Considerations in Awareness Systems: Designing with Privacy in Mind.- Grounding Privacy with Awareness: A Social Approach to Describe Privacy Related Issues in Awareness Systems.- Awareness Information with Speech and Sound.- APPLICATIONS.- Awareware: Narrowcasting Attributes for Selective Attention, Privacy, and Multipresence.- Emotinet: A Framework for the Development of Social Awareness Systems.- Conversational Awareness in Text-Based Computer Mediated Communication.- Fostering Social Engagement and Self-Efficacy in Later Life: Studies with Ubiquitous Computing.- Awareness of Daily Life Activities.- Design and Evaluation of Intentionally Enriched Awareness.- Situatedness of Awareness Information: Impact on the Design and Usage of Awareness Systems.- EVALUATING AWARENESS SYSTEMS.- Supporting Family Awareness with the Whereabouts Clock.- Evaluating Peripheral Displays.- Measuring Affective Benefits and Costs of Mediated Awareness: Development and Validation of the ABC-Questionnaire.
Summary
People go about their daily tasks with an in-built awareness of their social and physical environments. This awareness helps them to work cooperatively in groups, coordinate actions, and to maintain and enhance social communication with others. Networked technology has extended the reach of people's awareness to remote and distributed groups and provided access to a much larger social network than was previously feasible.
Awareness systems that are designed to support people to build up, maintain and make use of these extended networks are attracting the interest of industry, and include buddy lists in instant messaging, sustained audio-video links, active contact lists on mobile phones and so forth.
This book contains contributions from leading researchers in the field and looks at the design of awareness systems from theoretical foundations through to empirical studies and design concepts and will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in the field of HCI.
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From the reviews:
"The book is relevant, timely, and amazingly thorough in its discussion of the history, theory, application, and future trends in the field. … This comprehensive discussion of awareness systems is an essential read for researchers, developers, designers, and professors, in any field in which awareness and awareness systems are relevant. The authors tell interesting stories to illustrate relevant awareness concepts … provide a complete historical perspective, and, most importantly, stimulate new ideas." (Susan Shepherd Ferebee, ACM Computing Reviews, November, 2009)
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From the reviews:
"The book is relevant, timely, and amazingly thorough in its discussion of the history, theory, application, and future trends in the field. ... This comprehensive discussion of awareness systems is an essential read for researchers, developers, designers, and professors, in any field in which awareness and awareness systems are relevant. The authors tell interesting stories to illustrate relevant awareness concepts ... provide a complete historical perspective, and, most importantly, stimulate new ideas." (Susan Shepherd Ferebee, ACM Computing Reviews, November, 2009)
