Tracking serendipitous interactions: How individual cultures shape the office

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1072-1081

  Brown, Chloë ^a   Efstratiou, Christos ^a   Leontiadis, Ilias ^b   Quercia, Daniele ^c   Mascolo, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural dimensions; Interaction sensing; Serendipitous spaces

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; CULTURAL DIMENSIONS; FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION; INTERACTION SENSING; KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION; SERENDIPITOUS SPACES; WEARABLE ELECTRONICS; WORK ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84898960116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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