Animating personalised networking in a student apartment complex through participatory design
(2004) Animating personalised networking in a student apartment complex through participatory design. In Bond, Adrian and Clement, Andrew and de Cindio, Fiorella and Schuler, Douglas and van den Besselaar, Peter, Eds. Proceedings Participatory Design Conference 2, pages pp. 175-178, Toronto, Canada.
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Abstract
This paper describes the research design of an ongoing case study in an apartment complex comprising approximately 160 interna-tional students in Brisbane, Australia. The objective of the study involves the design and development of an online community network to facilitate the creation and growth of a sustainable resi-dential neighbourhood community. The study is informed by the PAD methodology which combines principles of participatory design with sociocultural animation. Preliminary research findings led to a new design strategy which takes Wellman’s theory of networked individualism into account. The new community build-ing strategy allows for the diversity and individualism of tenants by working towards providing easy and convenient ways for ten-ants to identify birds of a feather and to conduct personalised networking. What may emerge from this process is a complex web of social networks that span the anonymous void of the apartment complex itself, a web of "urban tribes".
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Status: | Published |
| Keywords: | participatory design; community networks; community informatics; urban neighbourhoods |
| Subjects: | 400000 Journalism, Librarianship and Curatorial Studies > 400100 Journalism, Communication and Media > 400104 Communication and Media Studies 370000 Studies in Human Society > 370100 Sociology > 370104 Urban Sociology and Community Studies 370000 Studies in Human Society > 370400 Human Geography > 370401 Urban and Regional Studies |
| ID Code: | 1904 |
| Deposited By: | Foth, Marcus |
| Deposited On: | 02 August 2005 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://www.cpsr.org/prevsite/conferences/pdc2004/index.html |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2004 (please consult author) |