CS 6724: Readings and Discussion

Note: Everyone must read at least the required readings; the discussant and interested others should also read the backup (**) readings. Email your reflections (one strength and one weaknesses for at least one of the readings under each subtopic) to the discussant (with a CC to rosson@vt.edu) by noon each Monday.

Jan 13: CSCW Overview, class admin
Discussant: Rosson
Recorder: N/A

Jan 20: Group and Organizational Behavior
Groups

  • Groups and Human Behavior (Excerpt), pp. 109-112
  • Time, Interaction and Performance (TIP): A Theory of Groups, pp. 116-129
  • A Typology of Tasks (Excerpt), pp. 165-169
    Discussant: Dr. Rosson
    Recorder: Vonda Patterson

    Meetings

  • How to Run a Meeting, pp. 130-145
  • The Group Facilitator: A CSCW Perspective, pp. 145-153
    Discussant: Dr. Rosson
    Recorder: Hope Harley

    Organizations

  • A Typology of Organizational Structure, pp. 177-186
  • ** The Organization of Cooperative Work: Beyond the "Leviathan" Conception of the Organization of Cooperative Work; Schmidt; CSCW94, 101-112.
  • ** The Marks are on the Knowledge Worker; Kidd, CHI94, 186-191.
    Discussant: Dr. Rosson
    Recorder: Andy Wick

    Jan 27: Studies of Communication
    Nonverbal Communication

  • Visual Communication and Social Interaction, pp. 153-165
  • Grounding in Communication, pp. 222-234
  • ** Informal Workplace Communication... Whittaker et al., CHI94, 131-137
    Discussant: Felicia Doswell
    Recorder: Steve Belz

    Communication Modes

  • Communication Modes and Task Performance, pp. 169-176
  • Informal Communication in Organizations, pp. 287-314
  • Sound Support for Collaboration, pp. 355-362
  • ** The Effects of Interactive Graphics and Text on Social Influence...; CSCW94, 299-310.
  • ** A Comparison of Face-to-Face and Distributed Presentations; Isaacs et al., CHI95, 354-361.
    Discussant: Hope Harley
    Recorder: Philip Isenhour

    Feb 03: Frameworks and Methods
    Coordination Models

  • What is Coordination Theory and How Can It Help, pp. 375-389
  • Computer Systems and the Design of Organizational Interaction, pp. 504-513
  • ** Situating Conversations within the Language/Action Perspective: The Milan Conversation Model; Michelis & Grasso, CSCW94, 89-100.
  • ** A Language/Action Perspective on the Design of Cooperative Work; Winograd, T., HCI, 1996, 3, 3-30.
    Discussant: Roger Bodnar
    Recorder: Cheryl Seals

    Workflow Analysis

  • Ethnographic Workflow Analysis: Specifications for Design, pp. 218-221
  • Experiences with Workflow Management: Issues for the Next Generation; Abbot & Sarin, CSCW94, 113-120 (handout)
  • ** Freeflow: Mediating Between Representation and Action in Workflow Systems; Dourish et al., CSCW96, 190-198.
    Discussant: Patrick Brooks
    Recorder: Mike McGee

    Feb 10: Frameworks and Methods (cont'd)
    Ethnography

  • Understanding Practice: Video as a Medium for Reflection and Design, pp. 205-217
  • Findings from Observational Studies of Collaborative Work, pp. 251-259
  • ** Faltering from Ethnography to Design; Hughes et al., CSCW92, 115-122.
  • ** The Limits of Ethnography: Combining Social Sciences for CSCW; Shapiro, CSCW94, 417-427.
    Discussant: Faith McCreary
    Recorder: Roger Bodnar

    Distributed Cognition

  • Twinkling Lights and Nested Loops, pp. 260-271
  • Analyzing Distributed Cognition in Software Teams, pp. 272-287
  • ** Distributed Cognition: An Alternative Framework...; Rogers & Ellis, J of Info Tech, 9, 1994, 119-128.
    Discussant: Joey Gabbard
    Recorder: Win Heagy

    Participatory Design

  • Designing for Cooperation-Cooperating in Design, pp. 191-199
  • ** Participatory Analysis: Shared Development of Requirements from Scenarios; Chin et al., CHI97
  • ** From Implementation to Design..; Trigg & Bodker, CSCW94, 45-54.
    Discussant: Steve Belz
    Recorder: Felicia Doswell

    Feb 17: Email and Discussion Groups
    Group Communication

  • CMC Requirements for Group Support, pp. 407-418
  • Increasing Personal Connections, pp. 418-430
  • Electronic Groups at Work, pp. 431-442
  • ** Work Group Structures and Computer Support, pp. 443-456
    Discussant: Philip Isenhour
    Recorder: Patrick Brooks

    Intelligent Mail

  • The Information Lens, pp. 461-473
  • Power, Ease of Use and Cooperative Work in a Practical MM Message System, pp. 485-500
  • ** Object Lens, pp. 474-484
  • ** Email Overload: Exploring Personal Information Management of Email; Whittaker & Sidner, CHI96, 276-283.
    Discussant: Andy Wick
    Recorder: Bo Begole

    Organizational Memory

  • Building an Electronic Community System, pp. 550-560
  • Capturing Organizational Memory, pp. 561-565
  • ** Report on a Development Project use of an IBIS, pp. 566-578.
  • ** Building a History of the Blacksburg Electronic Village; Carroll et al., DIS95, 1-6.
    Discussant: Neill Kipp
    Recorder: Joey Gabbard

    Feb 24: Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning
    Peer Review and Critique

  • Higher Levels of Agency for Children in Knowledge Building, pp. 531-536
  • A Design for Effective Support of Inquiry and Collaboration; Edelsen et al, CSCL95
  • ** Correlates of Learning in a Virtual Classroom; Hiltz, IJMMS, 1993, 71-98
  • ** Information-Access Characteristics for High Conceptual Prgress in a Computer-Networked Learning Environment; Oshima et al., CSCL95
    Discussant: Dennis Neale
    Recorder: Faith McCreary

    Collaborative Educational Games

  • Collaboration as Pedagogy, Pedagogy as Window; Ekeblad & Lindstrom, CSCL95
  • Playing Together Beats Playing Apart, Especially for Girls; Inkpen et al., CSCL95
    Discussant: Vonda Patterson
    Recorder: Brian Amento

    Collaborative Microworlds

  • Children's Collaboration Styles in a Newtonian MicroWorld ; Cockburn & Greenberg
  • Supporting Collaborative Guided Inquiry in a Learning Environment for Biology; Tabak et al., CSCL95
  • ** the LiNC project proposal, Carroll et al., VT Computer Science Department
  • ** The Social-Technical Design Circle; O'Day et al., CSCW96, 160-169.
    Discussant: Win Heagy
    Recorder: Hope Harley

    Mar 03: SPRING BREAK...ENJOY!!!

    Mar 10: Electronic Meeting Support
    Brainstorming and Discussion Tools

  • WYSIWIS Revisited, pp. 585-595
  • LiveBoard, pp, 709-717
  • ** A Conceptual Framework for the Augmentation of Man's Intellect; Engelbart, 1963
  • ** Tivoli: An Electronic Whiteboard for Informal Workgroup Meetings; Pedersen et al., InterCHI93, 391-398.
  • ** Hypermedia Structures and the Division of Labor in Meeting Room Collaboration; Mark et al., CSCW96
    Discussant: Joe Reiss
    Recorder:Felicia Doswell

    Electronic Meeting Rooms

  • Observation of Executives Using a Computer Supported Meeting Environment, pp. 695-708
  • Electronic Meeting Systems to Support Group Work, pp, 718-739
  • The Impact of Technological Support on Groups, pp. 754-773
  • ** Experiences at IBM with Group Support Systems: A Field Study, pp. 740-753
    Discussant: Mike McGee
    Recorder: Dan Haim

    Mar 17: Collaborative Writing and Drawing
    Shared Authoring

  • How People Write Together, pp. 239-250
  • Issues in the Design of Computer Support for Co-authoring and Commenting, pp. 537-549
  • The User-Centred Iterative Design of Collaborative Writing Software; Baecker et al., InterCHI93 (handout)
  • ** Learning to Write Together Using Groupware; Mitchell et al., CHI95, 288-295
  • ** Distributed Collaborative Writing...; Neuwirth et al., CHI94, 51-57.
    Discussant: Cheryl Seals
    Recorder: Neill Kipp

    Shared Drawing

  • Issues and Experiences Designing and Implementing Two Group Drawing Tools, pp. 537-549
  • ClearBoard, pp. 829-836 (plus video shown in class)
  • ** A Collaborative Medium for the Support of Conversational Props; Brinck & Gomez, CSCW92, 171-178
    Discussant: Joe Reiss
    Recorder: Steve Belz

    Mar 24: CHI 97, activities if any to be determined

    Mar 31: Desktop Video Conferencing
    Media Spaces

  • The Media Space, pp. 785-791
  • Experiences in the Use of a Media Space, 803-808
  • ** A Virtual Window on Media Space; Gaver et al., CHI95, 257-264.
  • ** Working by Walking Around; Kristofferson & Rodden, HCI96, 313-329.
    Discussant: Leonidas Rigas
    Recorder: Rod Henderson

    Connecting Distributed Groups

  • Experiences in an Exploratory Distributed Organization , pp. 792-802.
  • Portholes: Supporting Awareness in a Distributed Work Group, pp. 809-815
  • ** A Room of Our Own: Experiences from a Direct Office-Share, Adler & Henderson, CHI94, 138-144.
  • ** Re-Place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in Collaborative Systems; Harrison & Dourish, CSCW96, 67-75.
    Discussant: Rod Henderson
    Recorder: Rekha Kengeri

    Integrating Task and Video

  • Telepresence: Integrating Shared Task and Person Spaces, pp. 191-199
  • Design of TeamWorkStation, pp. 823-828
  • ** BrightBoard: A Video-Augmented Environment; Stafford-Fraser & Robinson, CHI96, 134-141.
    Discussant: Francisco Jaen-Martinez
    Recorder: Dennis Neale

    Apr 07: MUDs, MOOs and Virtual Environments
    Virtual Environments

  • Videoplace, pp. 781-784
  • User Embodiment in Collaborative Virtual Environments; Benford et al., CHI95
  • ** Providing Assurances in a Multimedia Interactive Environment; Seligmann et al., CHI95, 250-256
  • ** Shared Spaces: Transportation, Artificiality, and Spatiality; Benford et al., CSCW96, 77-85.
  • ** Talk and Embodiment in Collaborative Virtual Environments; Bowers et al., CHI96, 58-65.
    Discussant: Dan Haim
    Recorder: Leonidas Rigas

    MUDs and MOOs

  • MUDs Grow Up, Curtis, 1994
  • Virtual Professional Community: Results from the MediaMOO Project; Bruckmann & Resnick, 1993
  • ** The Jupiter Audio/Video Architecture: Secure Multimedia in Network Places; Curtis et al., MM95, 79-90.
  • ** Internet Conferencing with Networked Virtual Environments; Towell & Towell, Internet Research, 1995, 5(3), 15-20
    Discussant: Brian Amento
    Recorder: Mike McGee

    Apr 14: Supporting Synchronous CSCW
    UI Architecture

  • MMConf: An Infrastructure for Building Shared Multimedia Applications, pp. 637-651
  • Replicated Architectures for Shared Window Systems: A Critique, pp. 651-662
  • ** Real Time Groupware as a Distributed System: Concurrency Control and its Effect on the Interface; Greenberg & Marwood, CSCW94, 207-217.
  • ** Policies and Roles in Collaborative Applications; Edwards, CSCW96, 11-20.
    Discussant: Bo Begole
    Recorder: Francisco Jaon-Martinez

    Application Sharing

  • Collaboration Awareness in Support of Collaboration Transparency, pp. 663-671
  • **Multimedia Application Sharing in a Heterogeneous Environment, Wolf et al., MM95, 57-64.
  • ** The Use of Adaptors to Support Cooperative Sharing; Trevor et al., CSCW94, 219-230.
  • ** DCWPL: A Programming Language for Describing Collaborative Work; Cortes & Mishra, CSCW96, 21-29
    Discussant: Bo Begole
    Recorder: Rekha Kengeri

    Toolkits

  • Languages for the Construction of MUMMS Applications, pp. 672-680
  • Primitives for Programming Multi-User Interfaces, pp. 681-690
  • ** GroupKit: A Groupware Toolkit for Building Real-Time Conferencing Applications; Roseman & Greenberg, CSCW92, 43-50.
  • ** Designing Object-Oriented Synchronous Groupware with COAST; Schuckmann et al., CSCW96, 30-38
    Discussant: Rekha Kengeri
    Recorder: Joe Reiss

    Apr 21: Project Presentations

    1. Patterson, Reiss, Wick
    2. Haim, Henderson
    3. Doswell, Harley, Kengeri, Seals (in McBryde 104c)
    4. Begole, Heagy, Isenhour (in McBryde 104c)

    Apr 28: Project Presentations

    1. Jaen-Martinez, Rigas
    2. Bodnar, Gabbard, Kipp
    3. Belz, McCreary
    4. Amento, Brooks, McGee, Neale

    © Copyright 1997 by Mary Beth Rosson.
    Last Updated: 4/14/97