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As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced numerous people to work from home, it has revealed the underlying difficulties of team-based remote work. To address the communication issues, virtual office systems have emerged as a promising new technology. With the objective of motivating workers participation in a virtual office, we developed a prototype virtual office system integrated with an awareness-sharing subsystem that enables the sharing of abstracted statuses among team members without requiring logging in. Results of a preliminary assessment suggests that the developed prototype system may provide presence and sense of activity among team members with minimum reluctance for personal status disclosure.
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This work was partly supported by funds from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKENHI).
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Kurosaki, K., Sugisawa, R., Fujita, K. (2023). Development of Virtual Office System with Awareness-Sharing Function to Facilitate Communication Among Remote Team Members. In: Kurosu, M., Hashizume, A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14012. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35599-8_27
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