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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Disruption of meetings by laptop use: is there a 10-second solution?
We have conducted a study of meetings to gain an understanding of the sources of disruption when laptops are present. We videotaped five workplace meetings in which over 600 infor...
William Newman, Ethan L. Smith
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Information spaces - building meeting rooms in virtual environments
Virtual worlds are typically designed to recreate the familiar physical world, both in the design of the spaces and the ways that people interact within them. In this paper we des...
Drew Harry, Judith S. Donath
ICWSM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why? "Rich Get Richer" Versus "Seek and Ye Shall Find"
There is an ongoing debate, not just among academics but in popular culture, about whether social media can expand people's social networks, and whether online friends can be...
Zeynep Tufekci
ISWC
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
When Cyborgs Meet: Building Communities of Cooperating Wearable Agents
This paper introduces the notion of a Wearable Community as a group of wearable users who cooperate for their mutual benefit. In such a community, wearable computers act as person...
Gerd Kortuem, Jay Schneider, Jim Suruda, Stephen F...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
PeopleRank: Social Opportunistic Forwarding
— In opportunistic networks, end-to-end paths between two communicating nodes are rarely available. In such situations, the nodes might still copy and forward messages to nodes t...
Abderrahmen Mtibaa, Martin May, Christophe Diot, M...