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Computer-mediated interaction changes the way in which people interact and collaborate. Using networked computers people expereince new styles of interaction both in private and professional life. Instead of interacting face-to-face most of the time, today many people collaborate with remote peers via the Internet. As a result, more and more applications are designed for use by more than one user. Domains in which this has become obvious are multi-player games, websites that foster interaction among visitors, applications for interaction between mobile users, systems that foster collaborative learning, interactive workspaces and smart environments, or peer-to-peer applications, to name only a few. The pattern language for computer-mediated interaction helps you to design such novel applications. The idea of the language was born after we observed that the same concepts recurred in the CSCW research arena whenever a new base technology was available. What is the purpose of this site?At this site, you can browse the thumbnails of the patterns published in the book Patterns for Computer-Mediated Interaction. We are not blind for the large potential for mining
additional patterns in order to complement this pattern language. We
would like to encourage you to contribute additional experience in
forms of known uses, related patterns, new patterns, as well as pattern clusters at this site
to help us as a community to cover additional fields. From our
experience, we see several promising calls for action in the area of workflow management, computer-mediated collaborative
learning, gaming and entertainment, media use in collaboration, or mobile and other new computing devices. We thus invite you to participate in the
computer-mediated interaction patterns community.
For that purpose, you only have to request a login.
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