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. © Springer-Verlag 2004.
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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. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 3213, 314–321. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30132-5_46
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