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The importance of face-to-face informal communication is well recognized. The ‘irori’ is a Japanese-traditional little sitting space or room with a fire burning which affords relaxation and intimacy among a family. We, adopting the ‘irori’ as a metaphor, have designed and developed a cyber-space called IRORI as an IT-based space that catalyzes face-to-face informal communication among members of a small organization. We conducted evaluations of the IRORI by user experiments. The results of the experiments suggested that the IRORI brought about relaxation and conversation catalysis.
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Usuki, M., Sugiyama, K., Nishimoto, K., Matsubara, T. (2004). Evaluation of the IRORI: A Cyber-Space that Catalyzes Face-to-Face Informal Communication. In: Negoita, M.G., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3213. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30132-5_46
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