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CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
WeSearch: supporting collaborative search and sensemaking on a tabletop display
Groups of users often have shared information needs – for example, business colleagues need to conduct research relating to joint projects and students must work together on gro...
Meredith Ringel Morris, Jarrod Lombardo, Daniel Wi...
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Home video communication: mediating 'closeness'
Video-mediated communication (VMC) technologies are becoming rapidly adopted by home users. Little research has previously been conducted into why home users would choose to use V...
David S. Kirk, Abigail Sellen, Xiang Cao
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Notifications and awareness: a field study of alert usage and preferences
Desktop notifications are designed to provide awareness of information while a user is attending to a primary task. Unfortunately the awareness can come with the price of disrupti...
Shamsi T. Iqbal, Eric Horvitz
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Gone but not forgotten: designing for disconnection in synchronous groupware
Synchronous groupware depends on the assumption that people are fully connected to the others in the group, but there are many situations (network delay, network outage, or explic...
Carl Gutwin, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Christopher Wo...
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
On the "localness" of user-generated content
The “localness” of participation in repositories of usergenerated content (UGC) with geospatial components has been cited as one of UGC’s greatest benefits. However, the deg...
Brent Hecht, Darren Gergle