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Week 4 Activity: Exploring presence

Written by: Jonathan Briggs

February 24, 2007 [3239 views]

Read these articles

Article about presence from Boxes and Arrows
Recent article in the Herald Tribune

Here are the questions you should consider…

1.How would you define presence?
2.Give a couple of examples
3.How available are you to others at this moment?

Email application open and checking for mail
Blackberry receiving email
MSN or another IM system active
IM Status set to anything but Available
Mobile phone switched on
Mobile phone switched on but silent

4.How many (MSN) buddies do you have (if you use MSN or another IM system)?
5.How many contacts do you have in your mobile phone address book?
6.When you receive a “Private Call” without the number being identified do you sometimes send it to voicemail?
7.Have you set your own voicemail message on your mobile phone system?
8.What are the advantages of integrating “presence awareness” into IT systems?
9.Describe any you can see dangers of “presence awareness”?
10.What questions do you have about presence?

Here is a link to feed back your answers

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