Social Connectedness in UCE

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Social Connectedness in UCE

• User Centered Engineering Group
• Industrial Design Department

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Work overview

• ASTRA I Awareness Systems elicit feelings of
  connectedness (affective benefits) and some
  costs.
• Ambient Awareness and family connectedness (young
  busy parents).
• Privacy Grounding Model dealing with
  affective-costs (interpersonal privacy) in
  Awareness Systems.

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ASTRA I

• 2003 first field study that confirms that
  Awareness Systems elicit affective benefits and
  costs (ABC-Q).
• Importance of sharing daily moments in a
  lightweight.
• Importance of personal touch when sharing
  moments (post-card).

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Ambient Awareness

• Exploring the value of automated capture of
  awareness information to support the feeling of
  being connected in families.
• Experience Sampling (ESM) and the Day
  Reconstruction Method(DRM).

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Privacy Grounding Model

• A social approach to study the way people deal
  with their interpersonal costs when using
  Awareness Systems.
• Interactive and lightweight mechanisms to
  coordinate interpersonal privacy help minimizing
  uncertainty, false expectations, undesired
  obligations while maximizing share understanding
  of peoples needs for interaction.