Supporting awareness plays a prominent role in facilitating natural and effective communication in Instant Messaging (IM). This paper reports our empirical study of awareness in I...
Abstract: In field studies designed to uncover opportunities for computationallyintensive business applications, we observed an interaction pattern we term "constellations&quo...
If we consider most applications accessible through the Web, we can notice a lack of support able to adapt to the different information needs that different users may have regardi...
Web based data services are very popular with the average computer user. Examples of such services include Gmail.com, Yahoo Photos, Yahoo Briefcase and Amazon S3 Service. In such ...
A key challenge for software that supports asynchronous distance education is to engage and guide students who are not interacting in real-time. We describe a first study of two a...