Abstract:
ActiveMap is a
visualization tool that enables users to gain greater
awareness of the location of people in their workplace
environment, increasing each person's ability to seek out
colleagues for informal, face-to-face interactions. Our
initial implementation of the tool places images of each
person's face on a map of the building. We have explored
variations on how to best represent a range of features:
the "freshness" of location information, groups of people
in a single office, and the movement of people throughout
the environment. We describe the context of the
environment in which the tool is used, the features
embodied in this tool, variations we have implemented for
representing location and movement information, and some
potential extensions for future versions of the tool.
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