Well-Connected: Promoting Collaboration by Effective Networking

Robb, David A.; Methven, Thomas S.; Padilla, Stefano; Chantler, Mike j.

Abstract

We have developed a method and system that uses mutually agreed problem structuring and self-selection to bring together meeting attendees with complementary interests. The method builds upon previous tools which facilitate structuring and to these we have added method and assistive technology that both facilitates selection, and that records and displays ‘connections’ in real-time. We have developed these methods over a number of major networking events and discovered that participants both enjoyed this targetted approach and found that it produced more effective collaboration opportunities.

Citation

Robb, D. A., Methven, T. S., Padilla, S., & Chantler, M. J. (2016, February). Well-Connected: Promoting Collaboration by Effective Networking. Presented at 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, San Francisco, California, USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
• Start Date: Feb 26, 2016
• End Date: Mar 2, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Dec 15, 2015
• Publication Date: Feb 27, 2016
• Deposit Date: Oct 23, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 24, 2018
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 90-93
• Book Title: CSCW '16 Companion Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion
• ISBN: 9781450339506
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2818052.2874333
• Keywords: Interdisciplinary Collaboration; Group Awareness; Visualization; Meeting Tools; Facilitation
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1320937
• Contract Date: Oct 23, 2018