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April 16, 2007
Lit Review- Subtle ice-breaking: encouraging socializing and interaction around a large public display
This paper is an earlier report of the Opinionizer system described by Brignull & Rogers 2003. The authors describe some observations from the first deployment of Opinionizer at CHI 2002. They note the ability for the Opinionizer to draw people in (a honey-pot effect). Once people are in this ‘space’ near the display they become more likely to interact with one another. For example, (they might have found that) people who were near the display were more likely to communicate with people they had not met before. Like the other Opinionizer paper, this paper is short on details, but provides an interesting look at how displays can influence sense of ‘place’ and provide contexts for lower effort, lower risk interaction. (However, the paper does not discuss the theoretical influence the display is having on the environment)
Rogers, Y. and H. Brignull (2002). Subtle ice-breaking: encouraging socializing and interaction around a large public display. CSCW'02 Workshop Proceedings, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Posted by bcx at April 16, 2007 06:57 PM