Understanding Informal Communication Environment Effect on Social Inclusion

Network on Social Inclusion

Development of Informal Communication Environment Using Interactive Tiled Display Wall

In the early stage of planning or design, it is desired to support the informal communication between remote sites. In this study, informal communication environment between remote places was constructed by using the interactive tiled display wall. This system measures the user's gesture as well as captures the user's image by using the multiple fish-eye cameras. Then, the remote users can comm...

Informal communication

The typical sender-receiver game studied in the literature assumes that the receiver is uninformed. In reality, the receiver usually relates the sender’s message to her own information obtains a signal about their truthfulness. I analyze a sender-receiver model where both agents have private information and the sender cares to be perceived as honest. If the sender’s reputation concerns are stro...

The effect of informal social support: Face-to-face versus computer-mediated communication

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.chb.2011.03.008 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 609 216 2731. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. L Survey data were collected on a military sample to test two main hypotheses about the impact of face-toface and computer-mediated social support following disruptive life events. We tested two main hypotheses: first, as p...

The Social Nature of Work Fragmentation: Revisiting Informal Workplace Communication

Informal workplace communication is a central component of work and fundamental to understand its fragmentation. Previous studies point to external interruptions and multi-tasking preferences as the source of work fragmentation. Yet, although some empirical evidence exists on the role played by social informal interactions on interrupting work, we lack a more precise understanding of the degree...