Socially translucent systems: social proxies, persistent conversation, and the design of “Babble (1999)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Erickson99sociallytranslucent,
author = {Thomas Erickson and David N and Wendy A. Kellogg and Mark Laff and John T. Richards and Erin Bradner},
title = {Socially translucent systems: social proxies, persistent conversation, and the design of “Babble},
booktitle = {},
year = {1999},
pages = {72--79},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
We take as our premise that it is possible and desirable to design systems that support social processes. We describe Loops, a project which takes this approach to supporting computer-mediated communication (CMC) through structural and intemctive properties such as persistence and a minimalist graphical representation of users and their activities that we call a social proxy. We discuss a prototype called “Babble ” that has been used by our group for over a year, and has been deployed to six other groups at the Watson labs for about two months. We describe usage experiences, lessons learned, and next steps.
