%0 Conference Paper %1 Sun:2010:PLG:1880071.1880111 %A Sun, Yibo %A Greenberg, Saul %B Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work %C New York, NY, USA %D 2010 %I ACM %K design lightweight meetings reticollab1112 %P 235--244 %R 10.1145/1880071.1880111 %T Places for lightweight group meetings: the design of come together %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1880071.1880111 %X Lightweight group meetings are opportunistic, ad-hoc, or lightly planned gatherings characterized by the informal nature of their members and their tasks. Critically, they must be very easy to set up and maintain over time. We contribute the design of Come Together, a system that supports lightweight, persistent meetings between distance-separated people. Its design is theoretically motivated by the Locales Framework, with features derived from the best of Instant Messengers and the Community Bar. Its main motivation is that any action must be simple and fast to do if it is to support lightweight group meetings. In particular, Come Together represents both people and their things as <i>media items</i>, which - unlike prior systems - can be quickly brought together to form an ad hoc <i>place</i>. Places, which are persistent, can be presented in a variety of forms (e.g., as a stand-alone window, or as an element in a sidebar), with interaction mechanisms that let a person quickly adjust the degree of awareness he or she wishes to maintain of the place and its contents. Somewhat akin to buddy lists, a <i>console</i> collects all people, artifacts, and places, where users can select them to rapidly compose meeting places. %@ 978-1-4503-0387-3

@inproceedings{Sun:2010:PLG:1880071.1880111, abstract = {Lightweight group meetings are opportunistic, ad-hoc, or lightly planned gatherings characterized by the informal nature of their members and their tasks. Critically, they must be very easy to set up and maintain over time. We contribute the design of Come Together, a system that supports lightweight, persistent meetings between distance-separated people. Its design is theoretically motivated by the Locales Framework, with features derived from the best of Instant Messengers and the Community Bar. Its main motivation is that any action must be simple and fast to do if it is to support lightweight group meetings. In particular, Come Together represents both people and their things as <i>media items</i>, which - unlike prior systems - can be quickly brought together to form an ad hoc <i>place</i>. Places, which are persistent, can be presented in a variety of forms (e.g., as a stand-alone window, or as an element in a sidebar), with interaction mechanisms that let a person quickly adjust the degree of awareness he or she wishes to maintain of the place and its contents. Somewhat akin to buddy lists, a <i>console</i> collects all people, artifacts, and places, where users can select them to rapidly compose meeting places.}, acmid = {1880111}, added-at = {2011-10-05T20:13:56.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Sun, Yibo and Greenberg, Saul}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/297670b1c4a7a8fb2d1615e79ceaf3fa8/lanubile}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work}, description = {Places for lightweight group meetings}, doi = {10.1145/1880071.1880111}, interhash = {e225750f2302a85bb6a2f4003aebefdb}, intrahash = {97670b1c4a7a8fb2d1615e79ceaf3fa8}, isbn = {978-1-4503-0387-3}, keywords = {design lightweight meetings reticollab1112}, location = {Sanibel Island, Florida, USA}, numpages = {10}, pages = {235--244}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {GROUP '10}, timestamp = {2011-10-05T20:13:56.000+0200}, title = {Places for lightweight group meetings: the design of come together}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1880071.1880111}, year = 2010 }