Rendezvous is a conference call solution that leverages Voice over IP, enterprise calendaring, instant messaging, and rich client functionality to enhance the user experience and ...
Wendy A. Kellogg, Thomas Erickson, Tracee Vetting ...
Text-based interpersonal communication tools such as instant messenger are widely used today. These tools often feature emoticons that people use to express emotion to some degree...
Joonhwan Lee, Soojin Jun, Jodi Forlizzi, Scott E. ...
—When deploying collaborative applications such as Instant Messaging in ubiquitous computing environments significant enhancements can be afforded by offering additional context ...
Karl Quinn, Austin Kenny, Kevin Feeney, David Lewi...
As more people take part in online conversations, awareness of the varying conversational styles and social mores afforded by different software is growing. However, this awarenes...
In this paper, we propose to endow a graphical representation of a user in Instant Messaging – an avatar – with the ability to recognize and to express emotions and to play soc...
Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Is...
This paper presents a new distributed computing framework for Many Task Computing (MTC) applications, based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). A lightweight...
Lance Stout, Michael A. Murphy, Sebastien Goasguen
Instant messaging (IM) is a common and popular way for co-workers, friends, and family to stay in touch, but its “always-on” properties can sometimes lead people to feel overe...
Jeffrey T. Hancock, Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Natalya N...
Despite its popularity, commercial instant messaging has changed little in the past 15 years. Conversations are linear, immutable, and susceptible to errors in turn-taking and ref...
Selective availability in instant messaging can improve connectiveness while at the same time keeping disruption low. In this paper we report on an experience sampling study of se...
Interpersonal awareness is one person’s up-to-the moment knowledge about other group members, while artifact awareness is one person’s up-to-the-moment knowledge about other g...
Saul Greenberg, Stephen Voida, Nathan Stehr, Kimbe...