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A small space for playful messaging in the workplace: designing and deploying Picco

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Nicolas Villar,

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DIS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems

Pages 285 - 294

https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598511

Published: 21 June 2014 Publication History

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We present Picco, a tiny situated display for drawings and simple animations, which are created on a dedicated tablet app. Picco was designed to support playful messaging in the workplace through a glanceable desktop device that would place minimal demands on users. Two studies of the device at work demonstrated how crafting was an expression of intimacy when the device was used to connect the workplace to the home, and a way of demonstrating skill and humor to a broad audience when messages were sent amongst co-workers. However, the level of skill needed to produce these messages became a barrier to entry for some co-workers. Our findings suggest that visible ownership of a situated device, which can be personalized in other ways, can underpin a secondary level of participation that is crucial in supporting a sense of involvement when the level of crafting required can stifle more direct participation.

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Shen YKelly RBernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)CoasterMe: Supporting Informal Workplace Awareness Through the Everyday Behaviour of DrinkingExtended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3334480.3382824(1-8)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2020
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Kelly RGooch DWatts LBuchanan GStevenson D(2018)Designing for reflection on sender effort in close personal communicationProceedings of the 30th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/3292147.3292174(314-325)Online publication date: 4-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3292147.3292174
Rosner DSaegusa HFriedland JChambliss ABegole BKim JInkpen KWoo W(2015)Walking by DrawingProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2702123.2702467(397-406)Online publication date: 18-Apr-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2702123.2702467

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