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Anyone for Bowling? Coalescing for Shared Activities

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Despite the importance of individuals coming together for social group-activities (e.g. pick-up volleyball, chess clubs), the process by which such groups coalesce is poorly understood. Existing theories focus on adoption and contribution rates, group types, and the formation of group norms, as opposed to the processes involved in initial group coalescence. We address this gap in the literature through an interview study examining: 1) how well people's needs for social group activity engagement are being met; 2) the challenges they face in finding and participating in, and; 3) leading interest-based group activities. Our findings highlight how people-s needs are not being addressed by current technologies. In particular, they place a heavy burden on individuals to step forward into leadership positions where the return they will receive for their efforts is often unknown, or extremely limited. We discuss the implications of our findings for the design of interest-based group coalescing technology.

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Ricken, Stephen; Grandhi, Sukeshini; Zytko, Doug; Hiltz, Starr Roxanne; Jones, Quentin (2014): Anyone for Bowling? Coalescing for Shared Activities. Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work. DOI: 10.1145/2660398.2660421. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 122–130. Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

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social activities, social capital, meetup, critical mass

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Number of citations to item: 4

  • Joseph Seering, Felicia Ng, Zheng Yao, Geoff Kaufman (2018): Applications of Social Identity Theory to Research and Design in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction CSCW(2), doi:10.1145/3274771
  • Tianyi Wu, Liwei Shen, Xin Peng, Biao Shen, Zhengjie Li (2020): Group Activity Matching with Blockchain Backed Credible Commitment, In: 12th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware, doi:10.1145/3457913.3457923
  • Stephen Ricken, Louise Barkhuus, Quentin Jones (2017): Going Online to Meet Offline, In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, doi:10.1145/3083671.3083705
  • Douglas Zytko, Stephen Ricken, Quentin Jones (2018): Group-Activity Organizing Through an Awareness-of-Others Interface, In: Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, doi:10.1145/3272973.3274097
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