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2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
How people use orientation on tables: comprehension, coordination and communication
In order to support co-located collaboration, many researchers are now investigating how to effectively augment tabletops with electronic displays. As far back as 1988, orientatio...
Russell Kruger, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, Stacey ...
GROUP
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Studying the effect of similarity in online task-focused interactions
Although the Internet provides powerful tools for social interactions, many tasks—for example, information-seeking—are undertaken as solitary activities. Information seekers a...
Dan Cosley, Pamela J. Ludford, Loren G. Terveen
GROUP
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Awareness support in a groupware widget toolkit
Group awareness is an important part of synchronous collaboration, and support for group awareness can greatly improve groupware usability. However, it is still difficult to build...
Jason Hill, Carl Gutwin
GROUP
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Concepts for usable patterns of groupware applications
Patterns, which are based on in-depth practical experience, can be instructing for the design of groupware applications as sociotechnical systems. On the basis of a summary of the...
Thomas Herrmann, Marcel Hoffmann, Isa Jahnke, Andr...
GROUP
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Increasing workplace independence for people with cognitive disabilities by leveraging distributed cognition among caregivers an
In this paper we describe a current group configuration that is used to support people with cognitive disabilities (hereinafter referred to as “clients”) in the workplace. A c...
Stefan Carmien, Rogerio DePaula, Andrew Gorman, An...
GROUP
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Using cursor prediction to smooth telepointer jitter
Telepointers are an important type of embodiment in real-time distributed groupware. Telepointers can increase the presence of remote participants and can provide considerable awa...
Carl Gutwin, Jeff Dyck, Jennifer Burkitt
GROUP
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Technology for boundaries
This paper presents a study of an organisation, which is undergoing a process transforming organisational and technological boundaries. In particular, we shall look at three kinds...
Susanne Bødker, Jannie Friis Kristensen, Ch...
GROUP
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Supporting activity-centric collaboration through peer-to-peer shared objects
We describe a new collaborative technology that is mid-way between the informality of email and the formality of shared workspaces. Email and other ad hoc collaboration systems ar...
Werner Geyer, Jürgen Vogel, Li-Te Cheng, Mich...
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2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Data at work: supporting sharing in science and engineering
Data are a fundamental component of science and engineering work, and the ability to share data is critical to the validation and progress of science. Data sharing and reuse in so...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Matthew J. Bietz