Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: In studies of computer-supported cooperative work, researchers naturally focus on the tasks that people complete together, so as to create innovative tool designs for task-based collaboration. For instance, emergency response planners may be offered a map-based visual display to coordinate crisis information and resources; a medical team may collaborate through online annotations or edits to an electronic patient record. Hover, now that social media have blossomed in support of diverse online interaction,  are better positioned to study the role of informal communication as an element of collaborative work. More than a decade ago, Bonnie Nardi and her colleagues theorized about the "outeraction" that humans use to establish and maintain the social connections that provide an important backdrop for emergent collaborative goals and activities. Building from such ideas, our research lab has been studying the use of online text communication to augment or enhance the primary collaboration goals of a group. In this talk I draw from several scenario-based design research projects that have explored how relatively simple text communication tools might enable two potential benefits of informal communication -- the integration of task-relevant information across time, persons and contexts; and feelings of social connections to other group members. After discussing the design lessons learned from these research projects, I conclude with a discussion of more general prospects for enhancing collaborative work with informal communication tools.
['Mary Beth Rosson']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Designing online tools for informal communication: balancing information integration and sociality
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