Privacy in the open: How attention mediates awareness and privacy in open-plan offices

GROUP'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 51-60

  Birnholtz, Jeremy P ^a   Gutwin, Carl ^b   Hawkey, Kirstie ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Awareness; Group work; Privacy

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS SYSTEMS; DESIGN IDEAS; DISTRIBUTED AWARENESS; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; GROUP WORK; INFORMAL INTERACTIONS; OPEN-PLAN OFFICES; PRIVACY CONTROL; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; REAL-WORLD;

OFFICE BUILDINGS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 57649183200     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1316624.1316632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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