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The break-time barometer: an exploratory system forworkplace break-time social awareness

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Reuben Kirkham,

Sebastian Mellor,

Jiun-Shian Lin,

Daniel Jackson,

Patrick Olivier,

Thomas PloetzAuthors Info & Claims

UbiComp '13: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing

Pages 73 - 82

https://doi.org/10.1145/2493432.2493468

Published: 08 September 2013 Publication History

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The Break-Time Barometer is a social awareness system, which was developed as part of an exploratory study of the use of situated sensing and displays to promote cohesion in a newly-dispersed workplace. The Break-Time Barometer specifically aims to use an ambient persuasion approach in order to encourage people to join existing breaks, which take place within this community. Drawing upon a privacy-sensitive ubiquitous sensing infrastructure, the system of-fers information about potentially break-related activity in social spaces within this workplace, including alerts when specific events are detected. The system was developed using a user-centered iterative design approach. A qualitative mixed methods evaluation of a full deployment identified a diverse set of reactions to both the system and the design goal, and further elaborated the challenges of designing for social connectedness in this complex workplace context.

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