How much history of the dialogue should a chat client include? Some chat clients have minimized the dialogue history to deploy the space for other purposes. A theory of conversati...
Darren Gergle, David R. Millen, Robert E. Kraut, S...
We present a study of the effects of instant messaging (IM) on individuals' management of work across multiple collaborative projects. Groups of four participants completed f...
Susan R. Fussell, Sara B. Kiesler, Leslie D. Setlo...
Current systems often create socially awkward interruptions or unduly demand attention because they have no way of knowing if a person is busy and should not be interrupted. Previ...
Everyday work frequently involves coordinating and collaborating with others, but the structure of collaboration is largely invisible to conventional desktop applications. We are ...
Users of modern GUIs routinely engage in visual searches for various control items, such as buttons and icons. Because this is so ubiquitous, it is important that the visual prope...
This paper describes an approach to managing tasks and processes that are distributed across a large number of people. The basic idea is to use a social visualization called a tas...
Thomas Erickson, Wei Huang, Catalina Danis, Wendy ...
Context-aware applications are applications that implicitly take their context of use into account by adapting to changes in a user's activities and environments. No one has ...
Anind K. Dey, Raffay Hamid, Chris Beckmann, Ian Li...
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...
Successfully staging a mixed reality game in which online players are chased through a virtual city by runners located in the real world requires extensive orchestration work. An ...
Andy Crabtree, Steve Benford, Tom Rodden, Chris Gr...