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Buddyspace: Large-Scale Presence for Communities at Work and Play
Techreport ID: kmi-03-14
Date: 2003
Author(s): Yanna Vogiazou, Martin Dzbor, Jiri Komzak and Marc Eisenstadt
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Presence awareness' of peer-group members can enhance the emotional well-being of isolated learners and create a sense of community, fostering group communication and interaction. This paper presents our research framework in the design of presence-based applications for collaborative, learning and social environments and investigates the design of innovative playful and group learning activities for large numbers of people, based primarily on their mere presence. To promote the deployment of next-generation presence-based tools in distance-learning and social environments, we have implemented and deployed an open-source 'presence environment' called BuddySpace, which integrates Instant Messaging, geo-location services, peripheral presence awareness and presence-enabled multiplayer games.

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Appeared in: The Workshop 'The Role of Online Community Spaces in Shaping Virtual Community Interactions', in the International Conference on Communities and Technologies 2003, September 19-21 2003, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
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Knowledge Management
Creating learning organisations hinges on managing knowledge at many levels. Knowledge can be provided by individuals or it can be created as a collective effort of a group working together towards a common goal, it can be situated as "war stories" or it can be generalised as guidelines, it can be described informally as comments in a natural language, pictures and technical drawings or it can be formalised as mathematical formulae and rules, it can be expressed explicitly or it can be tacit, embedded in the work product. The recipient of knowledge - the learner - can be an individual or a work group, professionals, university students, schoolchildren or informal communities of interest.
Our aim is to capture, analyse and organise knowledge, regardless of its origin and form and make it available to the learner when needed presented with the necessary context and in a form supporting the learning processes.