A successful collaborative tool designed to aid discussion must be flexible, maintain the user’s coordinative agency, and be appropriable in many contexts. We have developed a ...
Margaret Dickey-Kurdziolek, Matthew Schaefer, Debo...
Instant messaging allows users to exchange presence and availability information, and to have spontaneous online conversations. We report on a study of account sharing in IM, and ...
Disaster-related research in human-centered computing has typically focused on the shorter-term, emergency period of a disaster event, whereas effects of some crises are longterm,...
We seek to investigate how co-located group brainstorming could be enhanced through computational tools that leverage gestures and voice cues. To pursue this goal we are developin...
This paper presents two case studies of informal group communication using multimedia conferencing that supports various media including video, audio and chat. The studies provide...