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Meredith Ringel Morris, Jarrod Lombardo, Daniel Wi...
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...
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...
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...
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...