Designing viable business models for context-aware mobile services
Telematics and Informatics
A normative multi-agent systems approach to the use of conviviality for digital cities
COIN'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems III
Social intelligence design for knowledge circulation
DNIS'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Databases in Networked Information Systems
Agorà 2.0: designing hybrid communities
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
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Use of presence and instant messaging (PIM) applications has grown very rapidly recently, not only at home, but also at work. Early studies on the use of PIM applications in the workplace, however, indicate that PIM applications need to be adapted towards the workplace context. In our research, we explore such adaptations, towards place-based presence systems, i.e., presence systems that are not only able to answer people-oriented presence queries such as “Who is online?” next to place-oriented presence queries, such as “Who is near?”. In this article, we describe a design space for place-based presence systems, in which we identify the most important aspects and options that designers of place-based presence systems need to consider. We also report on our exploratory research in this design space, comprising two cycles of designing, implementing and evaluating place-based presence prototypes. We conclude with lessons learned for future research in place-based presence systems.