Technologies_for_Enhancing_Collocated_Social_Inter
This document reviews design solutions and approaches for enhancing collocated social interaction with technology, identifying key research problems and gaps in knowledge.
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“Rather than design positioned as being in service to problems, design was used to facilitate active participation through happenings, interventions,”
Matthew Wizinsky • Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow
How can we use tech to develop more informal place-based ties? As we spend more of our time online, how can we make virtual space for social capital to form?
as relationships are developing, we also look for small, short-term ways that participants can support each other’s work.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
to social arrangements of space, or sociospatial design.11 Sociospatial design considers the effects of semi-fixed feature arrangement on human interaction, classifying arrangements on a spectrum from sociopetal to sociofugal. In a sociopetal arrangement, people are oriented toward each other for social interaction.
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
“Information and communication technology’s most important contribution to knowledge sharing in communities consists of the realization of a shared information base (communality) and facilitating communication independent of time and place (connectivity).”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The state of personal knowledge management
