Abstract:
Online interactions provide a rich source of content from
which reputations and communities can be created. With
the proliferation of various networked devices through
which people can access the digital world from an
increasing variety of physical contexts, there is a new
potential to utilize these reputations and communities to
create interaction opportunities in the physical world. We
are creating blogger bridges to enable members of a
community of online journalers to safely notify others in the
community of their proximity—using a method of
progressive revelation via networked devices—in order to
facilitate serendipitous encounters among community
members who are gathered together in a particular location.
We describe the kinds of communities that can support such
bridges, define a mechanism for enabling progressive
revelation, discuss possible technical solutions, and discuss
plans for deployment and evaluation in a real community of
use.
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