Download - Presence @ Winterschool 2008
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Presence
Scott Wilson
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university of bolton
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What is presence?
• Exposure of personal states to others
• Awareness of the states of others
• Ambient or peripheral communication
• Broadcast rather than point-to-point
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Presense: Killer Internet App
• Began with the use of away messages inearly messaging systems
• Got a Buddy Icon in AOL• Split into status and mood messages in
Skype• Transformed into status messages in
Facebook• Segued into micro-blogging with Twitter
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How is presence used?
• Managing attention and interruption
• Facilitating casual interactions
• Provide a sense of activity in an interactionspace
• Facilitate group self-awareness
• Self-expression
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Presence Semantics
• Network Availability
• Communication Availability
• Emotional context
• Activity context
• Location
• Needs and desires
• Identity projection
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Presence Awareness
• Interruptions
• Ambient awareness
• Situated awareness
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Presentities
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Producing presence information
1. Passive cues– Network listeners
– System capability listeners
– Application task listeners
– Workflow listeners
– Physical sensors
– Psychophysiological interfaces
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Producing presence information
2. Explicit cues– Status selections:
• Away messages
– Free expression:• Mood messages
• Microblogging
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Mapping cues to semantics
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Consuming presenceinformation
• Ambient awareness technologies
• Communication technologies
• Social networks
• Microblogs
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Ambient technology
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Communication technologies
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Social networks
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Microblogs
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Consuming presence: patterns
• Status icons
• Graphical avatars
• Subtitles
• Feeds
• Abstract representations
• Composite representations
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Ontology of presence
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Patterns in existing systems
institute for educational cyberneticsSystem Subsystem Purposes Means of
productionPresence Information Means of
consumptionMood Message Facilitate Casual Interactions
Supporting Self ExpressionExplicit cues Emotional context Subtitle
Status Message Manage attention and interruption Network listenerExplicit cues
Network availabilityCommunication availability
Status icon
Skype
Video availability Facilitate Casual Interactions System CapabilityListener
Communication availability Status icon
Status Message Manage attention and interruptionFacilitate casual interactions
Network listenerExplicit cues
Network availabilityCommunication availabilityEmotional context
Status iconGraphical avatarSubtitle
Video availability Facilitate Casual Interactions System CapabilityListener
Communication availability Status icon
IChat
Audio availability Facilitate Casual Interactions System CapabilityListener
Communication availability Status icon
Facebook Status Message Facilitate casual interactionsSupporting self-expressionSupporting group self-awareness
Explicit cues Activity contextEmotional context
SubtitleFeed
Twitter Supporting Self-expression Explicit cues Activity contextEmotional context
Feed
Nimio Sense of activity in interaction space Physical Sensors –sound, movement
Activity Context Composite
NetworkedEmoticon Device
Supporting self-expression Explicit cues Emotional context Status Icon
Jaiku Supporting Self-expressionFacilitate casual interactions
Explicit cuesPhysical sensor(mobile GPS)
Activity contextEmotional contextLocation
Feed
Moodle Online Users Facilitate casual interactions Network Listener Network Availability Graphical AvatarNabaztag Facilitate casual interactions Explicit cues
(waggling the ears)Activity contextEmotional contextCommunication availability
Abstract
Dabbish &Kraut’sexperiment
Manage attention and interruption ApplicationListener
Activity context (workload) Abstract
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Try it yourself now…
• Identify a piece of technology you areworking with or developing
• What role, if any, does presence play?What is its purpose?
• What kind of presence information does ituse?
• How is it produced?• How is it consumed?
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