Month: October 2019

Grudin, Jonathan. “Groupware and social dynamics: Eight challenges for developers.” Readings in Human–Computer Interaction. Morgan Kaufmann, 1995. 762-774. Summary: This paper details an in depth understanding of groupware and social dynamics for organizational and individual perspectives that often portrayed individual experiences rarely being problematic where groupware experiences are often problematic. Through these perspectives, eight challenges…

In the literature “Social Translucence: An Approach to Designing Systems that Support Social Processes” by THOMAS ERICKSON and WENDY A. KELLOGG, they tried to implement the real world conversation in computer system through social translucence. Summary: The literature talks about a system that tries to support real life communication and collaboration through computer system. They…

The authors of this paper discuss designing a working system “Babble” as a way to support communication and collaboration amongst large groups of people. The socially translucent systems that are developed have three defining themes – visibility, awareness, and accountability. The authors understand that human behavior is critical for designing a digital system for collaboration….

Erickson and Kellogg were interested in designing systems that supported communication and collaboration of large groups of people over computer networks. They wanted to learn how to design systems that support coherent and productive communication such as those that are based in the physical world. They posit that it is possible to design coherent communication…

While reading the first half of this paper, in the back of my mind was the thought: “2000…what technology did we have then…I wonder what this Babble is going to be?”  When I actually got to the section on the prototype: “Oh my G**, were these authors the first ones to conceptualize modern chats?!  Holy…

Social translucence refers to the strategy of making social information visible within a digital system. This paper focuses on the differences between how vastly available and transparent social cues are in real life and how technological communication is much more opaque. The three key components of communication in our world are visibility, awareness, and visibility….

“T. Erickson and W. A. Kellogg, “Social translucence: an approach to designing systems that support social processes,” ACM Trans. Comput. Interact., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 59–83, 2000.“ This paper deals with a design theory,  “Social Translucence”. Social Translucence can be characterized by Visibility, Awareness, and Accountability. These principles guided the design of a system called…

Erickson, Thomas, and Wendy A. Kellogg. “Social translucence: an approach to designing systems that support social processes.” ACM transactions on computer-human interaction (TOCHI) 7.1 (2000): 59-83. Summary: This paper seeks to provide a foundation on designing system to support communication and collaboration among large groups of people over computer networks. They introduce this idea of…