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CSCW
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Using Frequency-of-Mention in Public Conversations for Social Filtering
We report on an investigation of using Usenet newsgroups for social filtering of Web resources. Our main empirical results are: (1) for the period of May '96 to Jul '96,...
William C. Hill, Loren G. Terveen
CSCW
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Re-place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in Collaborative Systems
Many collaborative and communicative environments use notions of "space" and spatial organisation to facilitate and structure interaction. We argue that a focus on spati...
Steve R. Harrison, Paul Dourish
CSCW
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Supporting Multi-User, Multi-Applet Workspaces in CBE
Our experience with Internet-based scientific collaboratories indicates that they need to be user-extensible, allow users to add tools and objects dynamically to shared workspaces...
Jang Ho Lee, Atul Prakash, Trent Jaeger, Gwobaw Wu
CSCW
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Usability Study of Awareness Widgets in a Shared Workspace Groupware System
Workspace awareness is knowledge about others' interaction with a shared workspace. Groupware systems provide only limited information about other participants, often comprom...
Carl Gutwin, Mark Roseman, Saul Greenberg
CSCW
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Policies and Roles in Collaborative Applications
Collaborative systems provide a rich but potentially chaotic environment for their users. This paper presents a system that allows users to control collaboration by enacting polic...
W. Keith Edwards
CSCW
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Shared Spaces: Transportation, Artificiality, and Spatiality
We begin by reviewing current spatial approaches to CSCW (mediaspaces, spatial video conferencing, collaborative virtual environments and telepresence applications) and classifyin...
Steve Benford, Chris Brown, Gail Reynard, Chris Gr...
CSCW
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Freeflow: Mediating Between Representation and Action in Workflow Systems
In order to understand some problems associated with workflow, we set out an analysis of workflow systems, identifying a number of basic issues in the underlying technology. This ...
Paul Dourish, Jim Holmes, Allan MacLean, Pernille ...
CSCW
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Consistency Guarantees: Exploiting Application Semantics for Consistency Management in a Collaboration Toolkit
CSCW toolkits are designed to ease development of CSCW applications. They provide common, reusable components for cooperative system design, allowing application programmers to co...
Paul Dourish
CSCW
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Answer Garden 2: Merging Organizational Memory with Collaborative Help
This research examines a collaborative solution to a common problem, that of providing help to distributed users. The Answer Garden 2 system provides a secondgeneration architectu...
Mark S. Ackerman, David W. McDonald