A Review of How Space Affords Socio-Cognitive Processes during Collaboration

This paper reviews the literature about social and cognitive functions of spatial features used when collaborating in both physical and virtual settings. Those concepts come from various fields like social, cognitive as well as environmental psychology or CSCW (Computer Supported Collaborative Work). We briefly summarize the social and cognitive affordances of spatial features like distance, proxemics, co-presence, visibility or activity in the context of physical and virtual space. This review aims at grounding in an explicit framework the way human beings use space to support social interactions. This can be use as a starting point design efficient applications that take spatial context into account.

[1]  Philip R. Cohen,et al.  Referring as a Collaborative Process , 2003 .

[2]  William W. Gaver,et al.  Sound Support for Collaboration , 1991, ECSCW.

[3]  B. Latané.  The psychology of social impact. , 1981 .

[4]  Gloria Mark,et al.  Social Conventions in Collaborative Virtual Environments , 1998 .

[5]  Gloria Mark,et al.  Why distance matters: effects on cooperation, persuasion and deception , 2002, CSCW '02.

[6]  M. Argyle,et al.  Gaze and Mutual Gaze , 1994, British Journal of Psychiatry.

[7]  Paul D. Cherulnik,et al.  Reading Restaurant Facades , 1991 .

[8]  Duncan Joiner.  Social Ritual and Architectural Space , 1970 .

[9]  Howard Rheingold,et al.  Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution , 2002 .

[10]  Youngme Moon,et al.  The effects of distance in local versus remote human-computer interaction , 1998, CHI.

[11]  David D. Friedman,et al.  A Positive Account of Property Rights , 1994, Social Philosophy and Policy.

[12]  S. Lyman,et al.  Territoriality: A neglected sociological dimension. , 1967 .

[13]  A. Bruckman,et al.  The MediaMOO Project , 1995 .

[14]  Elena Rocco,et al.  Trust breaks down in electronic contexts but can be repaired by some initial face-to-face contact , 1998, CHI.

[15]  Steve Benford,et al.  A Spatial Model of Interaction in Large Virtual Environments , 1993, ECSCW.

[16]  T. Allen.  Managing the flow of technology , 1977 .

[17]  Donald Appleyard,et al.  Streets of San Francisco: Brunswik's Lens Model Applied to Urban Inference and Assessment , 1980 .

[18]  Youngme Moon,et al.  The effects of physical distance and response latency on persuasion in computer-mediated communication and human–computer communication. , 1999 .

[19]  Pierre Dillenbourg,et al.  Proximity and view awareness to reduce referential ambiguity in a shared 3D virtual environment , 2002, CSCL.

[20]  Herbert H. Clark,et al.  Contributing to Discourse , 1989, Cogn. Sci..

[21]  M. F. Schober.  Spatial perspective-taking in conversation , 1993, Cognition.

[22]  B STEINZOR,et al.  The spatial factor in face to face discussion groups. , 1950, Journal of abnormal and social psychology.

[23]  Jay Hewitt,et al.  Initial interaction distance among individuals equal and unequal in military rank. , 1975 .

[24]  Pamela J. Hinds,et al.  What Do We Know about Proximity and Distance in Work Groups? A Legacy of Research , 2002 .

[25]  F. J. Langdon,et al.  The Child's Conception of Space , 1967 .

[26]  Paul Dourish,et al.  Running Out of Space: Models of Information Navigation , 1999 .

[27]  W. Levelt,et al.  Speaking: From Intention to Articulation , 1990 .

[28]  Mark Francis,et al.  Control as a Dimension of Public-Space Quality , 1989 .

[29]  S. Garrod,et al.  Saying what you mean in dialogue: A study in conceptual and semantic co-ordination , 1987, Cognition.

[30]  Andreas Dieberger,et al.  Social Connotations of Space in the Design for Virtual Communities and Social Navigation , 2003, Designing Information Spaces.

[31]  Ian Bentley,et al.  Responsive Environments , 1985 .

[32]  Paul Dourish,et al.  Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces , 1992, CSCW '92.

[33]  Yutaka Matsushita,et al.  Multiparty videoconferencing at virtual social distance: MAJIC design , 1994, CSCW '94.

[34]  Thomas Erickson,et al.  From Interface to Interplace: The Spatial Environment as a Medium for Interaction , 1993, COSIT.

[35]  Fredrik Espinoza,et al.  GeoNotes: Social and Navigational Aspects of Location-Based Information Systems , 2001, UbiComp.

[36]  Keith Cheverst,et al.  Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide: some issues and experiences , 2000, CHI.

[37]  Paul Dourish,et al.  Re-place-ing space: the roles of place and space in collaborative systems , 1996, CSCW '96.

[38]  Tom Gross.  Virtual Communities on Stage : Supporting Chance Encounters , Communication and Awareness in a Theatre of Work , 2002 .

[39]  Michael Smyth,et al.  Responsive Environments, Place and Presence , 2005 .

[40]  Paul U. Lee,et al.  How Space Structures Language , 1998, Spatial Cognition.

[41]  Pamela J. Hinds,et al.  Distributed Work , 2002 .

[42]  F. J. Langdon,et al.  The Child's Conception of Space , 1967 .

[43]  F. Yates.  The Art of Memory , 1969 .

[44]  S. Greenberg,et al.  The Importance of Awareness for Team Cognition in Distributed Collaboration , 2001 .

[45]  Steve Benford,et al.  From Rooms to Cyberspace: Models of Interaction in Large Virtual Computer Spaces , 1993, Interact. Comput..

[46]  J. Meyrowitz,et al.  No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior. , 1987 .

[47]  Herbert H. Clark,et al.  Grounding in communication , 1991, Perspectives on socially shared cognition.

[48]  Pierre Dillenbourg,et al.  The Impacts of Awareness Tools on Mutual Modelling in a Collaborative Video-Game , 2003, CRIWG.

[49]  A. Kendon.  Some functions of gaze-direction in social interaction. , 1967, Acta psychologica.

[50]  James H. Liu,et al.  Distance Matters: Physical Space and Social Impact , 1995 .

[51]  Hirofumi Minam,et al.  Social and Environmental Psychology , 1995 .

[52]  Stephanie D. Teasley,et al.  Perspectives on socially shared cognition , 1991 .

[53]  Shanyang Zhao,et al.  Toward a Taxonomy of Copresence , 2003, Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments.

[54]  Eduardo Salas,et al.  Team Cognition: Process and Performance at the Inter- and Intra-Individual Level , 2002 .

[55]  Kristina Höök,et al.  Footprints in the Snow , 1999 .

[56]  V. Noreika,et al.  Environmental Psychology , 2018 .

[57]  Anne H. Anderson,et al.  The impact of VMC on collaborative problem solving: An analysis of task performance, communicative process, and user satisfaction. , 1997 .

[58]  Didier Guyvarc'h,et al.  La mémoire collective , 2006 .

[59]  H. Lefèbvre,et al.  La production de l'espace , 1992 .

[60]  W. H. Ittelson,et al.  Environmental psychology: People and their physical settings , 1976 .

[61]  Steve Whittaker,et al.  Co-ordinating activity: an analysis of interaction in computer-supported co-operative work , 1991, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

[62]  I. Altman,et al.  Place attachment: A conceptual inquiry. , 1992 .

[63]  J. A. Cheyne,et al.  The effect of spatial and interpersonal variables on the invasion of group controlled territories. , 1972, Sociometry.

[64]  Robert E. Kraut,et al.  --Understanding Effects of Proximity on Collaboration : Implications for Technologies to Support Remote Collaborative Work , 2001 .

[65]  David Kirsh,et al.  The Intelligent Use of Space , 1995, Artif. Intell..

[66]  Frank Biocca,et al.  How do users organize virtual tools around their body in immersive virtual and augmented environments ? : An exploratory study of egocentric spatial mapping of virtual tools in the mobile infosphere , 2003 .

[67]  Matthew Lombard,et al.  At the Heart of It All: The Concept of Presence , 2006 .

[68]  T. Schelling,et al.  The Strategy of Conflict. , 1961 .

[69]  Jo Herstad,et al.  The Role of Wearables in Social Navigation , 1999 .

[70]  James Falick Aia.  Environmental Psychology—Man and His Physical Setting , 1972 .

[71]  Pierre Dillenbourg,et al.  The role of a whiteboard in a distributed cognitive system , 1997 .

[72]  E. S. Knowles,et al.  Boundaries around group interaction: the effect of group size and member status on boundary permeability. , 1973, Journal of personality and social psychology.

[73]  Geraldine Fitzpatrick,et al.  Physical spaces, virtual places and social worlds: a study of work in the virtual , 1996, CSCW '96.

[74]  L. Duhl,et al.  The urban condition , 1963 .

[75]  Markus Sohlenkamp.  Supporting group awareness in multi user environments through perceptualization , 1998 .

[76]  Merideth Leigh Gattis,et al.  Spatial schemas and abstract thought , 2001 .

[77]  E. Hall.  The hidden dimension: an anthropologist examines man's use of space in public and private , 1969 .

[78]  Robert Cohen,et al.  The Development of spatial cognition , 1985 .

[79]  Sara A. Bly,et al.  A use of drawing surfaces in different collaborative settings , 1988, CSCW '88.

[80]  Jae-Shin Lee,et al.  Isn't That Spatial?: Distance and Communication in a 2-D Virtual Environment , 2006, J. Comput. Mediat. Commun..

[81]  R. Krauss,et al.  Concurrent feedback, confirmation, and the encoding of referents in verbal communication. , 1966, Journal of personality and social psychology.

[82]  Wilfried Brauer,et al.  Spatial Cognition III , 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

[83]  Albert Mehrabian,et al.  Seating Arrangement and Conversation , 1971 .

[84]  Steven M. Drucker,et al.  The social life of small graphical chat spaces , 2000, CHI.

[85]  Mitchel Resnick,et al.  Virtual Professional Community: Results from the MediaMOO Project1 , 2007 .

[86]  Lynne Coventry,et al.  The effects of visual proxemic information in video mediated communication , 1998, SGCH.

[87]  D. Ley,et al.  URBAN GRAFFITI AS TERRITORIAL MARKERS , 1974 .

[88]  Stephen C. Hirtle,et al.  The Nature of Landmarks for Real and Electronic Spaces , 1999, COSIT.

[89]  Gill Valentine,et al.  Cool places : geographies of youth cultures , 1998 .

[90]  W. Buxton.  Human-Computer Interaction , 1988, Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

[91]  Sandra C. Howell,et al.  Spatial Behavior of Older People , 1972 .

[92]  Leila Takayama,et al.  You're getting warmer!: how proximity information affects search behavior in physical spaces , 2003, CHI Extended Abstracts.

[93]  A. Paul Hare,et al.  Seating Position and Small Group Interaction , 1963 .

[94]  G. Miller,et al.  Language and Perception , 1976 .

[95]  Paul Dourish,et al.  Where the Footprints Lead: Tracking Down Other Roles for Social Navigation , 2003, Designing Information Spaces.