Conveying Availability and Capability to Communicate in Naturalistic Interaction

Abstract

This paper investigates the basis for social awareness; analysing naturalistic data to understand how people convey availability and capability to communicate in everyday interaction and how they use existing presence systems. The findings show that people in close personal relationships provide intermittent information about their activities and plans which are used to infer and negotiate future contact and communication decisions. The implications for more sophisticated cross-media communication systems are discussed.

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DWRC, University of Surrey

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Ipswich, Suffolk, IP5 3RE

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British Telecommunications plc

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DWRC, University of Surrey

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Surrey, GU2 7XH

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Contributors

Victoria Land

Mary Lumkin

David Frohlich

Conference

Publication date: September 2008

Publication date (Print): September 2008

Pages: 43-46

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2008.30

Copyright statement: © Victoria Land et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. People and Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

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Conference name: People and Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 22

Conference location: Conference Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Conference date: 1 - 5 September 2008

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing