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CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Persistence matters: making the most of chat in tightly-coupled work
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...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Effects of instant messaging on the management of multiple project trajectories
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...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Examining the robustness of sensor-based statistical models of human interruptibility
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...
James Fogarty, Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Lai
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Social and temporal structures in everyday collaboration
Everyday work frequently involves coordinating and collaborating with others, but the structure of collaboration is largely invisible to conventional desktop applications. We are ...
Danyel Fisher, Paul Dourish
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Unintended effects: varying icon spacing changes users' visual search strategy
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...
Sarah P. Everett, Michael D. Byrne
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
A social proxy for distributed tasks: design and evaluation of a working prototype
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 ...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
a CAPpella: programming by demonstration of context-aware applications
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...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
A diary study of task switching and interruptions
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...
Mary Czerwinski, Eric Horvitz, Susan Wilhite
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Orchestrating a mixed reality game 'on the ground'
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...