Social Interaction

Social Interaction

1. Being Social

   • A fundamental aspect of everyday life is being social, we continuously update each other about news, changes, and developments on a given project, activity, person or event.

2. Face to Face Conversations

   • Conversational mechanisms enable people to coordinate their talk with one another, allowing them to know how to start and stop.
     • Throughout a conversation further turn-taking rules are followed, enabling people to know then to listen, then it is their cue to speak, and when it is time for them to stop again to allow the others to speak.
       • Rule 1: the current speaker chooses the next speaker by asking a question, inviting and opinion, or making a request.
       • Rule 2: another person decides to start speaking.
       • Rule 3: the current speaker continues talking.

3. Remote Conversations

   • To compensate for not being there, people have adapted the way they hold conversations to fit in with the constraints of the respective technologies.
     • Given the numerous ways of communicating now, how do people decide which one to use and when? In general, people move effortlessly between them.

4. Telepresence

   • There will always be times then it is not possible for people to ve physically together and this has driven the research into the design of telepresence technologies, which allow a person to feel as if they were present.

5. Co-presence

   • Numerous shareable interfaces have been developed to enable more than one person to use them at the same time to enable co-located groups to collaborate more effectively when working, learning, and socializing.
     • Physical Coordination
       • When people are working closely together they talk to each other, issuing commands and letting others know how they are progressing
     • Awareness
       • Awareness involves knowing who is around, what is happening, and who is talking with whom.
     • Shareable Interfaces
       • Several studies have been carried out investigating whether different arrangements of shares technologies can help co-located people work together better.

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