Connectedness Oriented Communication : Fostering a Sense of Connectedness to Augment Social Relationships(<Special Issue>Special Issue on Selected Papers from SAINT 2002(The 2002 Symposium on Applications and the Internet))

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This paper discusses a concept for network communication that we call connectedness oriented communication. The concept of connectedness oriented communication is intended to shed light on the aspect of communication that supports and augments the social relationships of people by fostering a sense of connect edness among them. While traditional networkcommunication technologies focus on transmitting the contents of messages precisely, connectedness oriented communication focuses on the sense of connectedness that is fostered by exchanging the presence and status information of peopleas well as providing lightweight communication media. In this paper, the concept and design issues of connectedness oriented communication media are presented, and examplesystems we have constructed are described. Some results on initial experiments on thesystems and issues towards the further development of connectedness oriented communication media are also addressed.
2002-11-15