Designing and Evaluating Affective Aspects of Sociable Media to Support Social Connectedness

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Workshop aim: gain insight on...

Workshop chairs

... understanding and measuring social connectedness ... the types of content mediated by social media for this goal ... design experiences and interaction affordances of connectedness systems .. .social connectedness as a catalyst for other goals

Thomas Visser - Delft University of Technology

Activities Tackling design challenges. 4 teams each worked on a different challenge about the design of a sociable media system for social connectedness

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Pavan Dadlani - Philips Research Svetlana Yarosh - Georgia Institute of Technology

Designing the evaluation. Each team worked on the design of a field evaluation for another team’s designed system.

Activity 1: Design challenges

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Identifying important findings. Afterwards in plenary presentations the findings were shared and discussed

Connect Alzheimer’s patiens with their peers and family

Connect grandparents with grandchildren that speak different languages

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Daan van Bel - Eindhoven University of Technology

Leverage social connectedness to motivate towards more physical activity of teenagers

Activity 2: Evaluation proposals

Activity 3: Important outcomes • There is not one solution to the connectedness design challenges • Measurements, metrics and methodologies are not well established, yet... • Quantitative measures seem to be not suitable for longitudinal field studies • Workshop chairs will aim for a special journal issue on this topic in the coming year

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Connect incarcerated parents with their children

Workshop Stats: 1 19 24 19 8

Keynote speech by A.J. Brush (Microsoft Research) accepted position papers participants institutes countries

Thanks to the participants: Sara Henriques, Xinru Page, Maurits Kaptein, Airi Lampinen, Joris Janssen, Dominic Mentor, Nicolas Belloni, Mattias Rost, Henriette Cramer, Mónica Santos, Peyina Lin, Madeline Balaam, Lauri Dringus, Tom Gross, Marijke Rijsberman, Anne Oeldorf Hirsch, A.J. Brush, Jonathan van Wijngaarden, Katherine Isbister, Jared Donovan