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. The authors look at the Internet of Things from the lens of Computer-Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW). The authors urge us to analyze existing and…
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Reflection #7 – [11/14] – Viral Pasad
“Jun Zheng, Elizabeth Veinott, Nathan Bos, Judith S. Olson, and Gary M. Olson. 2002. Trust without touch: jumpstarting long-distance trust with initial social activities. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’02). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 141-146. DOI: https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu/10.1145/503376.503402″ Zheng at al begin by explaining how traditionally a physical contact…
Reflection #6 – [11/07] – Viral Pasad
Michael S. Bernstein, Greg Little, Robert C. Miller, Björn Hartmann, Mark S. Ackerman, David R. Karger, David Crowell, and Katrina Panovich. 2015. Soylent: a word processor with a crowd inside. Commun. ACM 58, 8 (July 2015), 85-94. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2791285 “Next week’s reading is on Soylent”, I tell my roommate, who often consumes Soylent as one of his…
Reflection #5 – [10/31] – Viral Pasad
Nicole B. Ellison, Charles Steinfield, Cliff Lampe, The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 12, Issue 4, 1 July 2007, Pages 1143–1168 The authors present a comprehensive review of the concept of social capital and its creation and maintenance via Facebook. They…
Reflection #4 – [10/17] – Viral Pasad
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. This seems like a very underrated/underdog work at the intersection of Information Retrieval and Machine Learning. Published in 1994, I wonder what the authors of this paper thought would be…
Reading Reflection #3 – [10/10] – Viral Pasad
Grudin, Jonathan. “Groupware and social dynamics: Eight challenges for developers.” Readings in Human–Computer Interaction. Morgan Kaufmann, 1995. 762-774. The authors discuss groupware and social dynamics for organisations and individual point of views that often portrayed individual experiences rarely being problematic while groupware experiences are often problematic. Through these experiences, it can be seen that there are…
Reflection #2 – [10/02] – Viral Pasad
“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…
Reflection #1 – [09/26] – Viral Pasad
Clark, Herbert H., and Susan E. Brennan. “Grounding in communication.” Perspectives on socially shared cognition 13.1991 (1991): 127-149. This is a very groundbreaking paper where Clark and Brennan establish Grounding as a mandatory requirement for any kind of collaborative activity to happen (eg: pair programming or playing the piano) However, jokes apart, it is an old paper,…