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Floorbook

Format: Demo | Language: English | Tags: social, research
By: Robbert Elshout and Suleman Shahid | Department of communication and information sciences, Tilburg University

Description
Floorbook was developed to stimulate social contact on the work floor by providing information about colleagues and their activities.

The prototype is the result of a User Centered Design project, and it is based on the needs of employees at Tilburg University. Employees want an application which can assist them in sharing and accessing all relevant information by putting in a minimum amount of effort. Instead of using a global social medium (e.g. facebook), a local and more specialized application was developed to support their everyday needs.

About Suleman
Suleman Shahid is a doctoral candidate in the Tilburg Institute of Cognition and Communication at Tilburg University. After finishing his Masters in Media Computing from RWTH Aachen, he joined Eindhoven University of Technology and received his Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng) degree in User System Interaction. Since 2008 he works as a PhD researcher at Tilburg University, where he is also teaching on a course on ‘User Interface Design’. He is conducting research on social and cross-cultural aspects of Affective Computing with a special focus on the expression of emotion across cultures and social contexts.