Social Computing and Computer-supported Cooperative Work

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…

Before this paper by Herbert H. Clark and Susan E. Brennan, apparently the going theory was that people talk in the most efficient way possible – the principle of least effort, it was called.  As if we plan out what we’re going to say so we give just enough information in the least possible amount…

Grounding on Communication Summary: A high-level overview of this paper defines a new term for communication in which the authors call grounding. There are two main factors in determining a common ground: purpose and medium. The authors define a common ground as mandatory for any form of communication. Their goal is to establish a criteria…

“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…