{"title":"Broadcasting information via display names in instant messaging","authors":"S. Smale, S. Greenberg","doi":"10.1145/1099203.1099218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1099203.1099218","url":null,"abstract":"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 information to this name as a way to broadcast information to their contacts. Twelve IM contact lists comprising 444 individuals were monitored over three weeks to observe how these individuals used and altered their display names. Almost half of them changed their display names at varying frequencies, where the new information fell into seventeen different categories of communication supplied to others. Three themes encompass these categories: Identification (\"who am I\"?), Information About Self (\"this is what is going on with me\") and Broadcast Message (\"I am directing information to the community\"). The design implication is that systems supporting person to person casual interaction, such as IM, should explicitly include facilities that allow people to broadcast these types of information to their community of contacts.","PeriodicalId":179423,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work","volume":"12 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116652238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaboratory use by peripheral scientists","authors":"Airong Luo, J. Olson","doi":"10.1145/1099203.1099266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1099203.1099266","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have seen an increasing use of collaboratories in scientific work. It is hypothesized that by enabling scientists to reach remotely located data, instruments and experts, collaboratories will benefit peripheral scientists (e.g., scientists from developing countries and scientists from minority colleges in the U.S.) more than core scientists. However, previous studies on computer network use have shown mixed results regarding peripherality effects. Adopting a qualitative approach, this study intends to investigate cultural, political, and technical factors that influence collaboratory use by peripheral scientists.","PeriodicalId":179423,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114144336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeking the source: software source code as a social and technical artifact","authors":"C. D. Souza, Jon E. Froehlich, P. Dourish","doi":"10.1145/1099203.1099239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1099203.1099239","url":null,"abstract":"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 structure of the development process can create dependencies between software developers. Each of these both shapes and reflects the development process. Our research concerns the extent to which, by looking uniformly at artifacts and activities, we can uncover the structures of software projects, and the ways in which development processes are inscribed into software artifacts. We show how a range of organizational processes and arrangements can be uncovered in software repositories, with implications for collaborative work in large distributed groups such as open source communities.","PeriodicalId":179423,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124063730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating 2D and 3D views for spatial collaboration","authors":"W. A. Schafer, D. Bowman","doi":"10.1145/1099203.1099210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1099203.1099210","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial collaboration is a specialized form of collaboration where the discussion relates to a physical space. This work investigates how to support distributed spatial collaboration activities. It presents a novel prototype that integrates both two-dimensional and three-dimensional representations. This collaborative software is examined in a qualitative study as a group virtually rearranges their lab furniture. The results describe the group's collaboration and their use of the combined representations. The findings highlight the usefulness of multiple representations and the need for additional features to support collaboration across representations.","PeriodicalId":179423,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124128767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"eCell: spatial IT design for group collaboration in school environments","authors":"C. Brodersen, O. Iversen","doi":"10.1145/1099203.1099243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1099203.1099243","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present the eCell; a temporary, collaborative niche for group work in school environments. The eCell consists of a private inner display and a public outer display located in unused public spaces e.g. in corridors and libraries throughout the school premises. The inner display is a large touch-sensitive screen connected to a standard computer. The outer display consists of a projection on a large semitransparent surface. Combined, the two displays comprise an IT-supported, collaborative environment especially suited for project based education. Through three iterations of design, we describe the technological, the spatial and the educational aspects of the eCell and outline its potential for supporting collaborative activities in a temporary niche, in which the architecture of the school itself reflects ongoing work. Thus, the eCell stimulates knowledge sharing, awareness and social interaction among pupils and teachers who are part of the school community.","PeriodicalId":179423,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128138817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real-world oriented information sharing using social networks","authors":"Junichiro Mori, T. Sugiyama, Y. Matsuo","doi":"10.1145/1099203.1099215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1099203.1099215","url":null,"abstract":"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 the center of looming privacy concerns. We propose a real-world-oriented information sharing system that uses social networks. The system automatically obtains users' social relationships by mining various external sources. It also enables users to analyze their social networks to provide awareness of the information dissemination process. Users can determine who has access to particular information based on the social relationships and network analysis.","PeriodicalId":179423,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115966490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David B. Martin, M. Rouncefield, J. O'Neill, M. Hartswood, D. Randall
{"title":"Timing in the art of integration: 'that's how the bastille got stormed'","authors":"David B. Martin, M. Rouncefield, J. O'Neill, M. Hartswood, D. Randall","doi":"10.1145/1099203.1099256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1099203.1099256","url":null,"abstract":"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 the multi-faceted process of integration when a customizable-off-the-shelf (COTS) system is configured and deployed in a complex setting. The process involves trying to artfully work out how disparate technologies integrate with existing and evolving patterns of work within developing regulatory requirements. We conclude by suggesting ways in which ethnographic interventions and user involvement may be timed and targeted to aid in achieving this process.","PeriodicalId":179423,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133513559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive radio: achieving consensus using negative preferences","authors":"D. Chao, Justin Balthrop, S. Forrest","doi":"10.1145/1099203.1099224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1099203.1099224","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce the use of negative preferences to produce solutions that are acceptable to a group of users. This technique takes advantage of the fact that discovering what a user does not like can be easier than discovering what the user does like. To illustrate the approach, we implemented Adaptive Radio, a system that selects music to play in a shared environment. Rather than attempting to play the songs that users want to hear, the system avoids playing songs that they do not want to hear. Negative preferences could potentially be applied to information filtering, intelligent environments, and collaborative design.","PeriodicalId":179423,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133735492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Searching for expertise in social networks: a simulation of potential strategies","authors":"Jun Zhang, M. Ackerman","doi":"10.1145/1099203.1099214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1099203.1099214","url":null,"abstract":"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 searching. However, relatively little is known about the social characteristics of various algorithms that might be useful. In this paper, we examine three families of searching strategies that we believe may be useful in expertise location. We do so through a simulation, based on the Enron email data set. (We would be unable to suitably experiment in a real organization, thus our need for a simulation.) Our emphasis is not on graph theoretical concerns, but on the social characteristics involved. The goal is to understand the tradeoffs involved in the design of social network based searching engines.","PeriodicalId":179423,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114398745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A landmark-based transformation approach to concurrency control in group editors","authors":"Rui Li, Du Li","doi":"10.1145/1099203.1099252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1099203.1099252","url":null,"abstract":"Operational transformation (OT) is a responsive and nonblocking concurrency control method widely-accepted in group editors. Correctness and performance are the basis of usefulness and usability of OT-based group editors. However, the correctness of previous OT algorithms depends on conditions that are very difficult to verify. In this paper we propose a novel landmark-based transformation (LBT) approach, its correctness no longer depending on those conditions and thus easy to prove. In addition, we give an example algorithm that significantly outperforms a state-of-the-art OT algorithm. This work reveals a more practical approach to developing OT algorithms.","PeriodicalId":179423,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2005 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130860070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}