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CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Minimum movement matters: impact of robot-mounted cameras on social telepresence
Recently, various robots capable of having a video chat with distant people have become commercially available. This paper shows that movement of these robots enhances distant peo...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Yuki Murakami, Daisuke Nogami,...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Supporting medical conversations between deaf and hearing individuals with tabletop displays
This paper describes the design and evaluation of Shared Speech Interface (SSI), an application for an interactive multitouch tabletop display designed to facilitate medical conve...
Anne Marie Piper, James D. Hollan
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Can markets help?: applying market mechanisms to improve synchronous communication
There is a growing interest in applying market mechanisms to tackle everyday communication problems such as communication interruptions and communication overload. Prior analytic ...
Gary Hsieh, Robert Kraut, Scott E. Hudson, Roberto...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Social summarization: does social feedback improve access to speech data?
We extend the notion of social tagging to construct social summaries of complex multimedia materials. Our system allows students to apply time-indexed multimedia tags such as hand...
Vaiva Kalnikaité, Steve Whittaker
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Small details: using one device to navigate together
We present results from a study examining the sensitivity of group navigation strategies to changes in route presentation on a shared mobile device. Two content-equivalent interfa...
Derek F. Reilly, Bonnie MacKay, Carolyn R. Watters...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
"Are you watching this film or what?": interruption and the juggling of cohorts
A proliferation of mobile devices in everyday life has increased the likelihood of technologically mediated interruptions. We examine ethnographic data from an SMSbased pervasive ...
Peter Tolmie, Andy Crabtree, Tom Rodden, Steve Ben...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Motivations for social networking at work
Joan Morris DiMicco, David R. Millen, Werner Geyer...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Communication networks in geographically distributed software development
In this paper, we seek to shed light on how communication networks in geographically distributed projects evolve in order to address the limits of the modular design strategy. We ...
Marcelo Cataldo, James D. Herbsleb
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Leadership in online creative collaboration
Leadership plays a central role in the success of many forms of online creative collaboration, yet little is known about the challenges leaders must manage. In this paper, we repo...
Kurt Luther, Amy Bruckman
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
The effects of local lag on tightly-coupled interaction in distributed groupware
Tightly-coupled interaction is shared work in which each person's actions immediately and continuously influence the actions of others. Tightly-coupled collaboration is a hal...
Dane Stuckel, Carl Gutwin