Whisper: analysis and design for a community event service

ABSTRACT

We present an analysis of what we call the community event space, looking at how social events are planned and organized. Based on a series of interviews, field studies, and a focus group, we introduce a framework outlining six phases of events: proposition, polling, participation, parting, perpetuation, and persuasion. We also present the design of Whisper, a web-based event service that addresses the planning and organizational challenges identified in this framework. This analysis and design serves as a blueprint for existing and future community event services.

REFERENCES

• 1: Kowitz, B., Darrow, A., Khalsa, H., and Zimmerman, J. Gather: Design for Impromptu Activity Support Utilizing Social Networks. In Proc. DPPI 2005, ACM Press (2005).
• 2: Zachary Pousman , Giovanni Iachello , Rachel Fithian , Jehan Moghazy , John Stasko, Design iterations for a location-aware event planner, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, v.8 n.2, p.117-125, May 2004 [doi>10.1007/s00779-004-0266-y]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)

Keywords:
event service, planned events, social groups