Beyond Being There

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• Beyond Being There
• Groupware and Social Dynamics
• Social, Individual Technological Issues for
  Groupware Calendar Systems

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Evaluating an interface

• Face-to-face
• Phone
• IM
• Text messaging
• E-mail
• Letter

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• Beyond Being There
• Groupware and Social Dynamics
• Social, Individual Technological Issues for
  Groupware Calendar Systems

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Eight Challenges

• Disparity in work and benefit
• Critical mass and Prisoner's dilemma problems
• Disruption of social processes
• Exception handling
• Unobtrusive accessibility
• Difficulty of evaluation
• Failure of intuition
• The adoption process

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Successful Groupware
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• Beyond Being There
• Groupware and Social Dynamics
• Social, Individual Technological Issues for
  Groupware Calendar Systems

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Calendar Activities
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Calendar Activities

• Temporal Orientation
• Scheduling
• Tracking (records)
• Reminding
• Note Recording / Archiving
• Retrieval and Recall (temporal association)

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Privacy Concerns and Solutions?
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The Duality of Technology
Society
Technology