摘要: Urbanization has created transient, ethnically-varied, and densely-populated communities where meaningful human contact is difficult. Urban social norms such as "civil inattention" --- a deliberate display of unwillingness to become more familiar with strangers discourage interactions among strangers. While these help reduce anxiety or fear in overcrowded urban centers they hinder public spaces (coffee shops, museums, malls, etc.) events (conferences, galas, should occur. This paper describes CommonTies, simple technological nudge that managers interaction organizers can use leverage contextual information encourage