Patterns, which are based on in-depth practical experience, can be instructing for the design of groupware applications as sociotechnical systems. On the basis of a summary of the...
Thomas Herrmann, Marcel Hoffmann, Isa Jahnke, Andr...
Although the Internet provides powerful tools for social interactions, many tasks—for example, information-seeking—are undertaken as solitary activities. Information seekers a...
We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
As people collect more and more digital music, photos, and video, the growing scale of the collection challenges how families share and collaborate around home media collections. ...
With the proliferationof multimediagroup applications, the construction of multicast trees satisfying Qualityof ServiceQoS requirementsis becominga problemof prime importance. Man...