TY - GEN
T1 - Community viewer
T2 - 1998 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 1998
AU - Nishimura, Toshikazu
AU - Yamaki, Hirofumi
AU - Komura, Takaaki
AU - Ishida, Toru
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1998 ACM.
PY - 1998/2/27
Y1 - 1998/2/27
N2 - Mobile computing has been mainly utilized for point-to-point communication services, such as E-mail or FAX among people. To advance this field, the challenge is to encourage group communication by providing information that encourages community formation. As the first step towards this goal, we experimentally implemented the community viewer, which dynamically visualizes the communication interaction among people in the community. To design the community viewer, we introduced (1) the party room metaphor, which provides a virtual place for representing various community activities, and (2) the reflector icon, which reflects the activity of the corresponding individual while protecting his/her privacy. The static relationship among people and their dynamic activities are displayed in the spatial arrangement of reflector icons in the party room. We report our experiments on implementing and testing the community viewer in an international conference using 100 personal digital assistants.
AB - Mobile computing has been mainly utilized for point-to-point communication services, such as E-mail or FAX among people. To advance this field, the challenge is to encourage group communication by providing information that encourages community formation. As the first step towards this goal, we experimentally implemented the community viewer, which dynamically visualizes the communication interaction among people in the community. To design the community viewer, we introduced (1) the party room metaphor, which provides a virtual place for representing various community activities, and (2) the reflector icon, which reflects the activity of the corresponding individual while protecting his/her privacy. The static relationship among people and their dynamic activities are displayed in the spatial arrangement of reflector icons in the party room. We report our experiments on implementing and testing the community viewer in an international conference using 100 personal digital assistants.
KW - Awareness supporting
KW - Conference supporting
KW - Metaphor
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U2 - 10.1145/330560.330852
DO - 10.1145/330560.330852
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85002428382
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SP - 433
EP - 438
BT - Proceedings of the 1998 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 1998
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 27 February 1998 through 1 March 1998
ER -