Personal Social Networks: a new organising principle for communication and information

12/13/99

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Personal Social Networks: a new organising principle for communication and information 

What I will talk about

Ethnographic study of future interfaces to information and communication systems

Importance of Personal Social Networks 

Why netWORK?: the utility of PSNs

Why netWORK and PSNs will become even more critical

The old economy from the point of view of workers

The new economy from the point of view of workers

Why we need a Social Workspace

Defining Personal Social Networks

How do people build up a PSN?

Deriving a PSN: ContactMap prototype

Contact Map importance analysis

ContactMap: Current version

PPT Slide

ContactMap functions: the Social Workspace

ContactMap: Current version

Status and to do list

Example

Author: Steve Whittaker and Bonnie Nardi, AT&T Labs

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