members have some shared goal, interest, need, or activity that provides the
primary reason for belonging to the community
• members engage in repeated active participation and there are often intense
interactions, strong emotional ties and shared activities occurring between
participants
• members have access to shared resources and there are policies for determining
access to those resources
• reciprocity of information, support and services between members
• shared context (social conventions, language, protocols).
Users should be able to...
• Tell who is speaking
• Provide feedback to a speaker verbally or non verbally
• Follow a conversational thread when there are multiple speakers
• Backtrack on a conversation
• Know if conversation is being logged
• Signal which conversational thread they are attending to
• "Hear" everything that is said (locally) with enough time to process it
• Communicate with different "voices" (e.g. say, emote, think, change real voice)
• Indicate level of engagement (e.g. be able to indicate when otherwise engaged in
real world conversation).
Widening the Net: Workshop Report on the Theory and Practice of Physical and Network Communities. Steve Whittaker, Ellen Isaacs & Vicki O'Day
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Wiki - supporting communites of practice
Video article explaining how wikki works as a support for communities of practice.
Fridge magnets - online
Communities of practice relies on an active , sharing of informatation about a common topic or theme. This game allows people to interact at once using flash and could be a good basis for an online message board where inforamtion and thoughts are collected and displayed together ( in real time)
http://www.kongregate.com/games/QRious/fridge-magnets
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
New phone features 'baffle users'
More features mean the interface design needs rethinking.
 clipped from news.bbc.co.uk
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Games will 'eclipse' other media
 clipped from news.bbc.co.uk
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Virtually real
I first realized the complexity of the virtual v's real during my final year at University. All dissertations needed to by typed up. Typically I had no money to pay and approached the “computer room” with trepidation. Actually everything went OK. I had done three or four weeks of typing at an after school class and so my typing was better than expected. Just as I was completing and my fingers were dropping off with the pain I saved the document. Suddenly the letters started fluttering down off the end of the sentences and words, they fell more and more and slowly a pile of letters started collecting like sand at the bottom of the screen. I was dumbfounded “but they’re not real. They are blobs of lights how can they fall and pile up?”
It was a virus and until I knew this, my mind had been blown away for a moment.. the virtual became “real”. The letters had solidness a form they had presence. They were living!
It was a virus and until I knew this, my mind had been blown away for a moment.. the virtual became “real”. The letters had solidness a form they had presence. They were living!
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