Author: Md Tahsin Tausif

As it is the last reading assignments we have on CSCW AND the topic is on CSCW, I just thought that it’s appropriate to do a reflection on CSCW itself based on the paper we read. We are finally at the end of the course after all! The paper is basically “CSCW and the Internet…

“Trust without Touch: Jumpstarting long-distance trust with initial social activities” presented by Jun Zheng et al. , talks about the importance of communication with partners before working and how the face-to-face interaction isn’t necessarily the only way of establishing trust between partners. Summary: It was thought that, remote groups don’t work as well as the…

Summary: Soylent, proposed by Michael S. Bernstein et al. , is a word processing interface that utilizes crowd contributions to aid complex writing tasks ranging from error prevention and paragraph shortening to automation of tasks like citation searches and tense changes. Soylent aids the writing process by combining Amazon’s Mechanical Turk workers and Microsoft Word….

The Benefits of Facebook ‘‘Friends:’’ Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites presented by Nicole B. Ellison, Charles Steinfield and Cliff Lampe conducts one of the first studies on Facebook users, and their offline to online relationship. The paper was presented back in 2007, almost 10 years ago. The difference between…

The paper “GroupLens: An Open Architecture for Collaborative Filtering of Netnews” was presented by Paul Resnick, Neophytos Iacovou , Mitesh Suchak, Peter Bergstrom, John Riedl. Reflection: The paper presents the idea of GroupLens, Which at first glance reminded me of current “netnews” Reddit. We are currently working on Reddit data for our project, so the…

Summary: The paper published in 1994 by Jonathan Grudin, Talks about the advent of groupware in the society. It talks about a time when the groupware wasn’t a norm and the challenges developers face while developing groupware. The acceptance of groupware so low that, success of groupware was unheard of. The paper came out with…

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…

Clark, Herbert H., and Susan E. Brennan. “Grounding in communication.” Perspectives on socially shared cognition 13.1991 (1991): 127-149. Summary: In order for two people to be in the same common ground in communication, they need to go through a process, which this paper dubs as “Grounding”. Grounding can be defined by two main factors. One of them…

My name is Md Tahsin Tausif, but my friends call me Tausif. If I had to introduce myself, I guess it’s best to talk about what I am into. Computer Science is a passion of mine. I think other than hardware I’m interested in all the fields of Computer Science. Another passion of mine is…