Hybrid work settings often lack the informal communication that naturally emerges from spontaneous encounters and ambient awareness of coworkers' activities, potentially hindering team collaboration. To address this challenge, we explored how lightweight interactions can be integrated into awareness-supporting technologies for fostering informal communication. Our experiential design approach focused on how information is perceived and processed rather than explicit content exchange. Through brainstorming, speculating, and prototyping, we explored the design space for small hybrid teams. By annotating and analyzing design concepts, speculative scenarios, and prototypes, we developed a framework that identified design options for lightweight interactions and methods for integrating them with information displays.

翻译：混合办公环境通常缺乏由偶发性接触和同事活动环境感知自然产生的非正式沟通，这可能阻碍团队协作。为应对这一挑战，我们探索了如何将轻量级交互整合到支持感知的技术中以促进非正式沟通。我们的体验式设计方法聚焦于信息如何被感知和处理，而非显性内容交换。通过头脑风暴、情境推演和原型设计，我们探索了小型混合团队的设计空间。通过对设计概念、推测性场景和原型进行标注分析，我们构建了一个识别轻量级交互设计选项及其与信息显示系统整合方法的框架。