Most community support applications currently focus on supporting indirect information exchange instead of facilitating communication or bringing people together. Additionally, researchers and developers tend to look at virtual only support without taking physical face-to-face meetings into consideration. For refocusing on people to people interaction, future community support applications first have to address identity management to present users in the system and to other users, and second have to extend their interfaces into the real world. In this paper we present an interaction design oriented exercise to supporting communities in physical places of exchange. This support for physical meetings might be on possible interface of future virtual community platforms.    «

Most community support applications currently focus on supporting indirect information exchange instead of facilitating communication or bringing people together. Additionally, researchers and developers tend to look at virtual only support without taking physical face-to-face meetings into consideration. For refocusing on people to people interaction, future community support applications first have to address identity management to present users in the system and to other users, and second hav...    »