People search for people with suitable expertise all of the time in their social networks – to answer questions or provide help. Recently, efforts have been made to augment this...
VERN is an online collaborative tool that coordinates and distributes the process of finding optimal meeting times across the members of a group. The system combines the underlyin...
A common problem in chat is that the chat display only reveals the temporal order of the conversation. A better user interface is desired that reveals the logical order of the mes...
The RideNow Project is designed to help individuals within a group or organization coordinate ad hoc shared rides. This paper describes three design decisions the RideNow team mad...
We present an analysis of privacy attitudes and practices in Instant Messaging based on responses to an online questionnaire. On a 7point Likert scale, the reported concern about ...
Information seeking and management practices are an integral aspect of people’s daily work. However, we still have little understanding of collaboration in the information seeki...
Patricia Ruma Spence, Madhu C. Reddy, Richard Hall
This study investigates the role of rhythms in the collaborative coordination of mobile work as well as in the individual actors’ comprehension and command of their work. Drawin...
In distributed software development, two sorts of dependencies can arise. The structure of the software system itself can create dependencies between software elements, while the ...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Jon Froehlich, Paul Douri...
Many instant messenger (IM) clients let a person specify the identifying name that appears in another person’s contact list. We have noticed that many people add extra informati...
While users disseminate various information in the open and widely distributed environment of the Semantic Web, determination of who shares access to particular information is at ...