This paper describes GroupBanter, a tool for supporting serendipitous group conversations using instant messaging. We investigate the potential of ephemeral group conversations by ...
Kori Inkpen, Steve Whittaker, Mary Czerwinski, Rol...
Supporting awareness plays a prominent role in facilitating natural and effective communication in Instant Messaging (IM). This paper reports our empirical study of awareness in I...
Despite the availability of awareness servers and casual interaction systems, distributed groups still cannot maintain artifact awareness – the easy awareness of the documents, ...
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...
Loops is a text-based computer mediated communication system aimed at small- to medium-sized corporate work groups. We begin by discussing the goals of the system and the rational...
Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg, Mark Laff, Jere...