Designing awareness systems for social connectedness

Designing to Support Social Connectedness: The Case of SnowGlobe

In recent years, an interesting class of communication systems has emerged: Social Awareness (SA) Systems. These systems aim at increasing people’s sense of social connectedness by providing them with peripheral awareness of information about people from their social network (e.g. presence, availability, activities). The interaction principles of these systems are based on the paradigms of Ubiq...

Chapter X DESIGNING DISPLAYS FOR HUMAN CONNECTEDNESS

How can we design displays that foster a sense of presence and awareness... that enhance a sense of community and togetherness... that enable human bonds to grow and flourish? Using five prototypes from the Human Connectedness research group at Media Lab Europe as a context for reflection, this chapter attempts to assemble a framework of questions and strategies for designers to consider when w...

Systems for Social Sustainability: Global Connectedness and the Tuvalu Test

Social Patterns for Designing Multiagent Systems

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures now appear to be more appropriate than traditional ones for building latest generation software that is typically concurrent, distributed, and dynamic. Since the fundamental concepts of multi-agent systems are social and intentional, rather than object, functional or implementation-oriented, the design of MAS architectures should be eased by using what we...

Designing Technical Systems as Social Systems

Technical systems are intuitively understood as rather different from organizations. Yet, this holds merely for their implementation. It appears to be very convenient to consider technical systems as ’automated’ social systems. The first results of a research project, investigating the benefits of this ’social stance’ towards technical systems, are reported upon in this paper. Two example techn...