The active badge location system
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Tivoli: an electronic whiteboard for informal workgroup meetings
INTERCHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERCHI '93 conference on Human factors in computing systems
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
The Cricket location-support system
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
The AWARE architecture: supporting context-mediated social awareness in mobile cooperation
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Toward universal mobile interaction for shared displays
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Continuous Tracking of User Location in WLANs Using Recurrent Neural Networks
ENC '05 Proceedings of the Sixth Mexican International Conference on Computer Science
ButterflyNet: a mobile capture and access system for field biology research
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Providing artifact awareness to a distributed group through screen sharing
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Moving to get ahead: local mobility and collaborative work
ECSCW'03 Proceedings of the eighth conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Mobile Networks and Applications
Supporting informal co-located collaboration in hospital work
CRIWG'07 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Groupware: design implementation, and use
Seamless interaction among heterogeneous devices in support for co-located collaboration
CRIWG'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Groupware: design, implementation, and use
Integrating context-aware public displays into a mobile hospital information system
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Supporting informal interaction in a hospital through impromptu social networking
CRIWG'10 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Collaboration and technology
Pervasive Computing for Hospital, Chronic, and Preventive Care
Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
Implementing shared displays: a tool for smooth integration of large-screen TVs and mobile devices
IWAAL'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Ambient Assisted Living and Home Care
RFID breadcrumbs for enhanced care data management and dissemination
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
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Informal communication is an essential resource in hospital work; it is used as a means to collaborate and coordinate the way in which work is performed, as well as to locate and gather the artifacts and human resources required for patient care. The need of physical proximity to establish and hold informal communications has motivated the development of tools that support remote informal interaction. However, this kind of technology has not been widely adopted in hospitals, where workers experience intense mobility. In this paper, we present the results of an observational study in a hospital aimed at understanding how local mobility changes the rules in the provision of support for informal communication, and how technology could improve this form of communication. We found that local mobility fosters opportunities for colocated communication; however, it faces some inconveniences related to the affordances of the physical environment.We address these issues through the design of SOLAR, a collaborative application that supports colocated interactions in hospital work through the implementation and integration of five services that form a ubicomp infrastructure. Additionally, we present a discussion about the perception of users related to the usefulness of this tool.