Supporting Residential Community Communications with Internet Technologies. 

Masters confirmation talk by
Keiran Bartlett.

University of Queensland
Ipswich Campus, 
Building 1 Conference Room 223

Tuesday June 21st at 3pm



Although internet technologies allow people to connect with friends and
colleagues across the world, the majority of residential communities make
little use of internet technologies to support residential community
communications.  Instead, they rely on traditional forms of communication,
such as local newspapers, flyers, local radio, and face-to-face meetings.

This project has examined the literature on attempts to support residential
community communications with internet technologies , and undertaken a
case-study in an outer suburban community to identify current forms of
community communication and community needs. This has led to deployment of
an evolving internet based prototype to try to support community
communications. I will describe the literature, the research processes
leading to the prototype and the lessons so far. 


Keiran Bartlett graduated with B.InfEnv Hons. in 2002 from the  School of
Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland. 
He is supported by a scholarship from the School of ITEE and from ACID, the
CRC for Interaction Design.