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augur:
social schemes

Sharing electronic calendars within a workgroup has become commonplace in today's office environments. This research, a facet of the Augur project, seeks to understand the benefits obtained from sharing electronic calendars and develop computational artifacts to enhance these existing benefits and provide new benefits.

We are performing ethnographic research in an effort to understand how coworkers use shared calendars to plan and engage in informal interactions with their colleagues; we are also studying how coworkers use shared calendars to maintain awareness of their colleagues' activities. This ethnographic research directs the developments of interfaces to the Augur system.

We are developing an interface that augments a traditional electronic calendar display with additional information about the activities of a coworker's colleagues. This additional information helps coworkers better anticipate, plan, and manage informal interactions with their colleagues. We are also creating interfaces to the Augur system that are off the desktop.

See also:
augur
augur: probabilistic calendars

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