Technologies for Enhancing Collocated Social Interaction: Re...

Technologies for Enhancing Collocated Social Interaction: Review of Design Solutions and Approaches

The paper reviews technological solutions designed to enhance collocated social interaction, analyzing 92 publications on their context, objectives, design approaches, and evaluation methods within computer-supported cooperative work and human-computer interaction.

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