Conference Program

Cleidson de Souza, Nicolas Roussel, Posters Chairs

Supporting usability in open source
Paula M. Bach, Penn State University

This poster describes three problems with open source usability and addresses the problems with design solutions for CodePlex, an open source project hosting website.

Connecting associative information spaces
Jonathan Diehl, RWTH Aachen University
Jan Borchers, RWTH Aachen University

An associative information space contains all information relevant for a person organized using associations. Connecting such information spaces with each other allows the seamless integration of other's information into our own.

CoBib: collaborative indexing and annotation of bibliographic citations
Beth Trushkowsky, University of California Berkeley
Dave Stecher, Duke University
Jeffrey Forbes, Duke University

CoBib facilitates the process of surveying literature by using a community's actions, annotations, and referrals.

International factors in the CSCW 2008 submission and review process
Susan R. Fussell, Cornell University
John C Tang, IBM Research

We analyzed submissions to the CSCW 2008 conference according to the geographical region of the primary author to determine whether there were biases in the review process. Primary author region was associated with the likelihood that a Paper or Note would be discussed at the program committee meeting, but did not influence the decision process for those submissions that were discussed.

Encouraging occupational choice in IT through social networks and online collaboration
Indira R. Guzman, TUI University
Kathryn R. Stam, SUNY Institute of Technology
Jeffrey M. Stanton, Syracuse University

The project focuses on developing awareness and understanding of the real characteristics of IT occupations,

including information about the training needed, the challenges faced, the rewards gained, the opportunities in life that IT occupations provide, and the beliefs, values, norms, and activities that are part of the IT occupational culture.
Social networks in manufacturing problem management ,
Mark Handel, Boeing Phantom Works
Steven Poltrock, Boeing Phantom Works

We look at a large knowledge workflow system (called here DELIB) as first a collaboration system, and only secondarily as a workflow system.

How will you see my greatness if you can't see me?
Libby Hemphill, University of Michigan
Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research

In this poster, we offer evidence that remote new hires are frustrated by their diminished opportunities to demonstrate proficiency to their managers and are unable to observe some important kinds of great work by their teammates.

t-Room: remote collaboration apparatus enhancing spatio-temporal experiences
Keiji Hirata, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
Katsuhiko Kaji, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
Yasunori Harada, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
Naomi Yamashita, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
Shigemi Aoyagi, NTT Communication Science Laboratories

In this paper, we describe the overall design of the remote collaboration apparatus t-Room and present three applications: playback of a recorded scene using a hand controller, an elevator effect at scene change, and remote golf lessons.

Examining the "four infrastructures" supporting the hundred dollars laptop
Yong Ming Kow, University of California
Ruy Cervantes, University of California

The hundred dollar laptop, or XO, is an ambitious tool aiming to be deployed in "developing countries" worldwide. We questioned its plausibility without a holistic policy that considers its ecology in-situ.

Educational application of medical dialogue visualization method
Yuichi Koyama, Nagoya University
Yuichi Sawamoto, Nagoya University
Yasushi Hirano, Nagoya University
Shoji Kajita, Nagoya University
Kenji Mase, Nagoya University
Kimiko Katsuyama, Osaka Prefecture University
Tomio Suzuki, Nagoya University Hospital
Kazunobu Yamauchi, Fujita Health University College

A medical dialogue visualization method was applied to medical education to verify the method's usefulness.

Orientation and mobility in 3D virtual worlds for people with disabilities
Mark Laff, IBM TJ Watson Research Center

In this poster we report on the orientation and mobility accommodations developed for the PowerUp educational virtual world game which are presently being validated with different user populations.

DVRMedia2: a P2P Framework for massive multiuser virtual environments
Victor M Larios Rosillo, Universidad de Guadalajara
Martha Patricia Martinez Vargas, Universidad de Guadalajara
Hervè Luga, Universitè Toulouse 1
Martha Elena Zavala Villa, Universidad de Guadalajara
Patrice Torguet, Universitè Toulouse

In this paper we describe the DVRMedia2 P2P framework under development to support massive multi-user simulations.

The Visual-Talk table: understanding co-experience in a cross-cultural notion
Jung-Joo Lee, University of Art and Design Helsinki
Ilpo Koskinen, University of Art and Design Helsinki
Jussi Mikkonen, University of Art and Design Helsinki

This poster introduces ongoing study of how collaborative technologies shapes different co-experience in different culture by conducting user study with a novel collaborative technology called "The Visual-Talk Table".

Sketching design spaces
Danielle Lottridge, University of Toronto
Wendy Mackay, INRIA

Designers often talk about developing a design space as a fundamental part of the design process. We argue that informal sketching of design spaces is also an important collaborative practice that can help designers express and communicate their designs.

Facilitating collaborative scientific field research through mobile applications
Matthew Mayernik, University of California Los Angeles
Alberto Pepe, University of California Los Angeles
Jillian C Wallis, University of California Los Angeles
Christine L Borgman, University of California Los Angeles

This poster describes our approach for developing a mobile knowledge management application for use on real-world scientific WSS deployments.

Implications of integrating social tagging into a task oriented application
Vanesa Mirzaee, University of British Columbia
Lee Iverson, University of British Columbia
Samia Khan, University of British Columbia

This poster reports preliminary findings of an ongoing research project investigating the effects of integrating a social tagging model into an existing work-related/task-oriented information management application.

Pictograph Chat Communicator II: a chat system that embodies cross-cultural communication
Moonyati binti Mohd Yatid, Wakayama University
Taro Fukuda, Wakayama University
Junko Itou, Wakayama University
Jun Munemori, Wakayama University

We propose a system called the Pictograph Chat Communicator II, a system that allows people who do not share the same spoken language to communicate using pictograph based chat system.

Tagging people for access control: users' perspective
Maryam Najafian Razav, University of British Columbia
Lee Iverson, University of British Columbia

We have interviewed parents and pre-school teachers to investigate how they exchange information. Findings show that the information flow relies heavily on presence.

Presence as a foundation for information exchange between parents and pre-school teachers
Stina Nylander, Swedish Institute of Computer Science

Environment to environment (E2E) communication systems for collaborative work
Ish Rishabh, University of California
Vivek Kumar Singh, University of California
Hamed Pirsiavash, University of California
Ramesh Jain, University of California

E2E is an initiative to harness the power of the World Wide Web (WWW) along with intelligent sensing of environments, to provide effective bi-directional communication which is free from the limitations imposed by devices.

Augmented coordination and communication tools (ACCT)
Manoj Seshadrinathan, Accenture Technology Labs
Kelly L Dempsk, Accenture Technology Labs

ACCT is an infrastructure for capturing and attaching context to artifacts across complex workflows.

An interactive visualization framework for exploring and reflecting on interaction in online social networks
Moushumi Sharmin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brian P Bailey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Karrie G Karahalios, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This paper describes an interactive visualization framework that allows users to explore their history of interaction with online friends.

E-data visualization for qualitative research
Catharine Starbird, University of Colorado Boulder

This paper presents the E-Data Viewer software application as a research tool for qualitative coding of large, electronic data sets.

It is my baby: expressing territoriality in Wikipedia
Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Cornell University
Dan Cosley, Cornell University
Geri Gay, Cornell University

Our preliminary findings reveal that our participants apply the Maintained template as a marker to communicate ownership by accepting responsibility as a primary editor.

How urgent is urgent? The impact of culturally-based temporal perceptions on virtual teams
Rich Egan, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Marilyn Tremaine, Rutgers University
Jerry Fjermestad, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Suling Zhang, Kean University
Allen Milewski, Monmouth University
Patrick O'Sullivan, IBM Corporation

In this poster we present the results from a survey and interviews conducted on global software teams working in Ireland, the US, China and India.

Reinvented technologies for cooperative work
Philippe Viguiè, IRIT - Universitè Toulouse
Pascale Zaratè, IRIT - Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse
Jean-Luc Soubie, IRIT - INRIA

In this paper, we describe the introduction in a large European bank of a system organized around a blend of an audio conferencing using phones and a software for synchronous shared documents (NetMeeting).

A narrative on collaborative storyboarding
Stacy M. Branham, Virginia Tech
Shahtab Wahid, Virginia Tech
D. Scott McCrickard, Virginia Tech
Steve Harrison, Virginia Tech

Collaborative storyboarding, an emerging area of research, entails having groups of users work together to produce a sequence of user-system interactions.

Keeping little science little: supporting collaboration and autonomy with cyberinfrastructure
Jillian C. Wallis, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
Christine L. Borgman, University of California

Habitat ecologists collect extremely valuable data that is usable by other domains once aggregated. Unfortunately datasets are difficult if not impossible to aggregate without standardization, a natural product of collaboration.

Asynchronous decision-making in distributed teams
Qing Li, Syracuse University
Robert Heckman, Syracuse University
Eileen Allen, Syracuse University
Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University
U. Yeliz Eseryel, Syracuse University
James Howison, Syracuse University
Andrea Wiggins, Syracuse University

Our inductive qualitative analysis of 360 decision episodes of six FLOSS projects revealed diversity in decision-making practices, which appears to be related to differences in project effectiveness and task type.

The pulse of the corporate blogosphere
Sarita Yardi, Georgia Institute of Technology and
Hewlett-Packard Labs ,
Scott Golder, Hewlett-Packard Labs
Mike Brzozowski, Hewlett-Packard Labs

In this poster, we present results from our examination of the temporal aspects of blogging within a large internal corporate blogging community.

Meeting warming-up: detecting common interests and conflicts before a meeting
Zhiyong Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University
P. R. China and Kyoto University, Japan
Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University
Xingshe Zhou, School of Computer Science
Yuichi Nakamura, Kyoto University

In order to achieve both efficiency and effectiveness of meetings, we propose a system, namely Meeting Warming-up, to detect common interests and conflicts among participants before a meeting. We extend the ontology-based preference model with semantic relations both in and across attributes. Common interests and conflicts are determined through preference propagation and merging. A group preference graph is used to visualize the global state of participants' opinions. The experimental results showed that our approach is feasible.

Cooperative work on the web: developing a framework for understanding what people are doing now with Web 2.0 technologies
Mark Zachry, University of Washington
Brandi Arnold, University of Washington
Charlie Claxton, University of Washington
Marita Graube, University of Washington
Elly Searle, University of Washington
Ramsey G. Tesdell, University of Washington

We present the preliminary results of a national survey of knowledge workers about their use of publicly available, Web -based services to support cooperative work.