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GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Supporting social worlds with the community bar
The Community Bar is groupware supporting informal awareness and casual interaction for small social worlds: a group of people with a common purpose. Its conceptual design is prim...
Gregor McEwan, Saul Greenberg
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Timing in the art of integration: 'that's how the bastille got stormed'
This paper uses a long term ethnographic study of the design and implementation of an electronic patient records (EPR) system in a UK hospital Trust to consider issues arising in ...
David Martin, Mark Rouncefield, Jacki O'Neill, Mar...
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Negotiation and the coordination of information and activity in distributed software problem management
Publicly accessible bug report repositories maintained by free / open source development communities provide vast stores of data about distributed software problem management (SWP...
Robert J. Sandusky, Les Gasser
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
What ideal end users teach us about collaborative software
Many studies have evaluated different uses of collaborative software. Typically, the research has focused on the shortcomings and, sometimes, the ways end users succeed or fail to...
David F. Redmiles, Hiroko Wilensky, Kristie Kosaka...
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Proactive support for the organization of shared workspaces using activity patterns and content analysis
Shared workspace systems provide virtual places for selforganized and semi-structured cooperation between local and distributed team members. These cooperation systems have been a...
Wolfgang Prinz, Baber Zaman
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Follow the (slash) dot: effects of feedback on new members in an online community
Many virtual communities involve ongoing discussions, with large numbers of users and established, if implicit rules for participation. As new users enter communities like this, b...
Cliff Lampe, Erik W. Johnston
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
An optimization approach to group coupling in heterogeneous collaborative systems
Recent proliferation of computing devices has brought attention to heterogeneous collaborative systems, where key challenges arise from the resource limitations and disparities. S...
Carlos D. Correa, Ivan Marsic
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Adaptive radio: achieving consensus using negative preferences
We introduce the use of negative preferences to produce solutions that are acceptable to a group of users. Using negative preference profiling, a system determines which solution...
Dennis L. Chao, Justin Balthrop, Stephanie Forrest
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Instant messaging bots: accountability and peripheral participation for textual user interfaces
Over the last several years, studies of instant messaging have observed its increasing role in the workplace[1] and in social situations[2]. We propose that modifying applications...
Stephen Chan, Benjamin Hill, Sarita Yardi
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Pair programming and the re-appropriation of individual tools for collaborative programming
Although pair programming is becoming more prevalent in software development, and a number of reports have been written about it [4] [6], few have addressed the manner in which pa...
Sallyann Bryant, Pablo Romero, Benedict du Boulay