Author: Harsh

This paper discusses how CSCW concepts and approaches can help gain an understanding of IoT from a social and practice perspective. It raised concerns about designing technologies for the future. The authors argue that CSCW can make important contributions to the development of IoT technologies. The authors suggest the conceptualization of the cooperation between objects…

This paper discusses the importance of trust between people during computer-mediated communication (CMC). Face to face meetings before CMC can improve trust, but this is not always possible. The authors show that trust is much higher if people do not meet beforehand but rather engage in various getting-acquainted activities over a network when compared to…

The authors here talk about Soylent, a word processing interface that enabled writers to call upon crowdworkers to help shorten proof read and edit parts of their documents on demand. The authors hypothesized that crowd workers with a basic knowledge of written English can support both novice and expert writers. More importantly, the authors discuss…

The focus of this paper is on the relationship between Facebook and the formation & maintenance of social capital. The authors describe social capital as “the sum of the resources, actual or virtual, that accrue to an individual or a group by virtue of possessing a durable network of more or less institutionalized relationships of…

The idea the authors discuss is of GroupLens; An open architecture for distributed ratings. The architecture specified the format of ratings, the propagations of the ratings and the interfaces for delivering predictions and ratings between news clients and rating servers. GroupLens is presented as a system for collaborative filtering of news online, to help people…

The article outlined the early origins of groupware and specifically described eight problem areas, suggests solutions to these problems and examines groupware successes such as email. The eight problem areas examined were; the disparity between who does the work and who gets the benefit, critical mass and prisoner’s dilemma problems, social, political and motivational factor,…

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…

“Grounding in communication” discusses in detail all the elements necessary for communication to achieve common ground. Clarke and Brennan posit that grounding is basic to communication, especially when a conversation needs to move forward. In grounding, two factors have an important effect on a conversation, it’s purpose and the medium. To establish what participants in…

My name is Harsh Sanghavi and I am pursuing my M.S. in Human Factors Engineering. My primary interests are user experience research and design, autonomous vehicle user interface design and evaluation, and human-computer interaction. Before joining Virginia Tech, I had the opportunity to present a poster-style presentation at the International Astronautical Congress on the use…