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Socially translucent systems: social proxies, persistent conversation, and the design of “babble”
Thomas Erickson,David N. Smith,Wendy A. Kellogg,Mark R. Laff,John T. Richards,Erin Bradner +5 more
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Loops, a project which takes this approach to supporting computer-mediated communication through structural and intemctive proper proper as persistence and a minimalist graphical representation of users and their activities that the authors call a social proxy is described.Abstract:
We take as our premise that it is possible and desirable to design systems that support social processes. We describe Loops, a project which takes this approach to supporting computer-mediated communication (CMC) through structural and intemctive properties such as persistence and a minimalist graphical representation of users and their activities that we call a social proxy. We discuss a prototype called Babble that has been used by our group for over a year, and has been deployed to six other groups at the Watson labs for about two months. We describe usage experiences, lessons learned, and next steps.read more
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