Recent advances in ubiquitous technology have greatly changed the way people stay connected. We conducted an in-depth video shadowing study to observe how close-knit groups use al...
Ellen Isaacs, Margaret H. Szymanski, Yutaka Yamauc...
The movement of design out of the workplace and into the home brings with it the need to develop new analytic concepts to consider how ubiquitous computing might relate to and supp...
Andy Crabtree, Tom Rodden, Terry Hemmings, Steve B...
This paper investigates emergent practices around `microblogging', changing and sharing status within a social group. We present results from a trial of `Connecto', a ph...
Louise Barkhuus, Barry Brown, Marek Bell, Scott Sh...
This paper describes a new collaboration technology that is carefully poised between informal, ad hoc, easy-to-initiate collaborative tools, vs. more formal, structured, and higho...
Michael J. Muller, Werner Geyer, Beth Brownholtz, ...
Ad hoc networks represent a key factor in the evolution of wireless communications. These networks typically consist of equal nodes that communicate without central control, inter...