Author: Timothy Stelter

Robertson, Toni, and Ina Wagner. “CSCW and the Internet of Things.” ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19-23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway. Springer, Cham, 2015. Summary: This paper casts a Computer Supported-Cooperative Work (CSCW) light onto the Internet of Things (IoT) domain.Through the themes of coordination mechanisms, differences…

Zheng, Jun, et al. “Trust without touch: jumpstarting long-distance trust with initial social activities.” Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. ACM, 2002. Summary: This paper examines trust through computer-mediated communication (CMC).  Specifically, does focusing on social interaction, visual identification, and personal information sharing show higher levels of trusts over not…

Bernstein, Michael S., et al. “Soylent: a word processor with a crowd inside.” Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. ACM, 2010. Summary: This paper introduces Soylent, a crowdsourced word processing interface, with three main components: shortn, crowdproof, and the human macro. Shortn focuses on shortening written pieces with…

Ellison, Nicole B., Charles Steinfield, and Cliff Lampe. “The benefits of Facebook “friends:” Social capital and college students’ use of online social network sites.” Journal of computer-mediated communication 12.4 (2007): 1143-1168. Summary: This paper provides both a comprehensive literature review on social network sites and social capital then conducts a study on the bridging, bonding,…

Resnick, Paul, et al. “GroupLens: an open architecture for collaborative filtering of netnews.” Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work. ACM, 1994. Summary: This 1994 paper discusses the architecture, “ongoing experimentation”, and social implications of GroupLens, a distributed system using collaborative filtering for gathering, disseminating, and using ratings from some users…

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…

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…

Clark, Herbert H., and Susan E. Brennan. “Grounding in communication.” Perspectives on socially shared cognition 13.1991 (1991): 127-149. Summary: This paper discusses the grounding of communication where communication is some process and medium that is understood to be a collaborative process that has many ways of establishing understanding through developing utterance and costs associated to…