Our physical environment is increasingly filled with multimedia content on situated, community public displays. We are designing methods for people to post and acquire digital inf...
Scott Carter, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Laurent Deno...
This paper presents ethnographic fieldwork on Friendster, an online dating site utilizing social networks to encourage friend-of-friend connections. I discuss how Friendster appli...
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, ...
People frequently write messages to themselves. These informal, hurried personal jottings serve as temporary storage for notable information as well as reminders for future action...
Ubiquitous, context-aware computer systems may ultimately enable computer applications that naturally and usefully respond to a user's everyday activity. Although new algorit...
Stephen S. Intille, Ling Bao, Emmanuel Munguia Tap...
We report on a diary study of the activities of information workers aimed at characterizing how people interleave multiple tasks amidst interruptions. The week-long study revealed...
As mobile devices become location-aware, they offer the promise of powerful new applications. While computers work with physical locations like latitude and longitude, people thin...
Changqing Zhou, Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Frankowski,...
In recent years, mobile devices have rapidly penetrated into our daily lives. However, several drawbacks of mobile devices have been mentioned so far. The proposed system called T...
Koji Yatani, Koiti Tamura, Keiichi Hiroki, Masanor...
We introduce a browser evaluation test (BET), and describe a trial run application of the test. BET is a method for assessing meeting browser performance using the number of obser...
Pierre Wellner, Mike Flynn, Simon Tucker, Steve Wh...
Listening to music on personal, digital devices while mobile is an enjoyable, everyday activity. We explore a scheme for exploiting this practice to immerse listeners in navigatio...
Nigel Warren, Matt Jones, Steve Jones, David Bainb...