Evaluating PresenceScape: a 3D virtual world application to support social awareness and informal communication in distributed teams

Authors:
Koen Willaert;Zhe Lou;Sigurd Van Broeck;Marc Van den Broeck;An Jacobs
Affiliations:
IBBT - SMIT - VUB, Brussels, Belgium;Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Antwerp, Belgium;Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Antwerp, Belgium;Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Antwerp, Belgium;IBBT - SMIT - VUB, Brussels, Belgium
Venue:
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This extended abstract presents a prototype evaluation of an innovative application called PresenceScape. This application is targeting distributed teams of knowledge workers to support social awareness and informal communication by means of a customized 3D virtual world environment. PresenceScape is able to capture real life events, translate and visualize them with user-defined rules into virtual representations. User acceptation and implications for further design of the application are discussed.