Measuring the impact of third place attachment on the adoption of a place-based community technology

CoCollage is a placed-based community technology that leverages the power of online social networking to facilitate awareness and face-to-face interactions in a third place. We adapted standardized measures of place attachment, social networks and psychological sense of community to provide a framework grounded in the social science literature for studying real world adoption of place-based community technologies. We found the standardized measures of place attachment and psychological sense of community meaningfully predicted likelihood of technology adoption and usage in a caf?. We discuss some lessons learned from our initial deployment of CoCollage in a real-world setting to support a nascent place-based community. Author Keywords Online social networks, social media, physical spaces, third places, proactive displays, ubiquitous computing, community, place-based community, place. ACM Classification Keywords H.5.3 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Group and Organization In...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Shelly Farnham, Joseph F. McCarthy, Yagnesh Patel, Sameer Ahuja, Daniel Norman, William R. Hazlewood, Josh Lind
• Keywords: CHI 2009, Human Computer Interaction, Nascent Place-based Community, Place Attachment, Place-based Community Technologies