Wednesday Program

November 20

9:30 - 10:30 a.m.

Concurrency
Setting up Encounters

11:00 - 12:30 p.m.

Places for Collaboration
Work & Records

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Virtual Environment
Groupware Usage

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Closing Plenary Panel - "Peopled Online Virtual Worlds: A New Home for Cooperating Communities, a New Frontier for Interaction Design"

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Concurrency

Consistency Guarantees: Exploiting Application Semantics for Consistency Management in a Collaboration Toolkit

Paul Dourish, Apple Research Laboratories

A Concurrency Control Framework for Collaborative Systems

Jon Munson and Prasun Dewan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

An Integrating, Transformation-Oriented Approach to Concurrency Control and Undo in Group Editors

Matthias Ressel, Doris Nitsche-Ruhland, and Rul Gunzenhäuser, University of Stuttgart

Setting up Encounters

Supporting Social Awareness @ Work, Design, and Experience

Konrad Tollmar, Ovidiu Sandor, and Anna Schömer, The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

FreeWalk: Supporting Casual Meetings in a Network

Hideyuki Nakanishi, Chikara Yoshida, Toshikazu Nishimura, and Toru Ishida, Kyoto University

Piazza: A Desktop Environment Supporting Impromptu and Planned Interactions

Ellen Isaacs, John C. Tang, and Trevor Morris, SunSoft

Places for Collaboration

TeamRooms: Network Places for Collaboration

Mark Roseman and Saul Greenberg, University of Calgary

Physical Spaces, Virtual Places, and Social Worlds: A Study of Work in the Virtual

Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Simon Kaplan, and Tim Mansfield, University of Queensland

Supporting Multi-User, Multi-Applet Workspaces in CBE

Jang Ho Lee, Atul Prakash, Trent Jaeger, and Gwobaw Wu, University of Michigan

Work & Records

Documents and Professional Practice: "Bad" Organizational Reasons for "Good" Clinical Records

Christian Heath and Paul Luff, University of Nottingham

Computer Support for Clinical Practice: Embedding and Evolving Protocols of Care

Barbara Katzenberg, Fred Pickard, and John McDermott, Ellora, Inc.

Paperwork At 78 kph

Esa Auramäki, Mike Robinson, Anne Aaltonen, Mikko Kovalainen, Arja Liinamaa, and Taina Tuuna-Väiskä, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

Virtual Environment

Practically Accomplishing Immersion: Cooperation in and for Virtual Environments

John Bowers, University of Manchester; Jon O'Brien, Lancaster University; and James Pycock, University of Manchester

Cooperative Virtual Environments: Lessons from 2D Multi User Interfaces

Gareth Smith, Lancaster University

My Partner is a Real Dog: Cooperation with Social Agents

Salvatore Parise, Boston University; Sara Kiesler, Carnegie Mellon University; Lee Sproull, Boston University; and Keith Waters, Digital Equipment Corp.

Groupware Usage

Talking to Strangers: An Evaluation of the Factors Affecting Electronic Collaboration

Steve Whittaker, AT&T Laboratories

Groupware in the Wild: Lessons Learned from a Year of Virtual Collocation

Judith S. Olson and Stephanie Teasley, University of Michigan

Groupware Implementation: Reinventing the Sociotechnical Frame

Tora K. Bikson, The RAND Corp.; and J. D. Eveland, California School of Professional Psychology

Closing Plenary Panel

Peopled Online Virtual Worlds: A New Home for Cooperating Communities, a New Frontier for Interaction Design

Present and virtual panel: Led by Bruce Damer, Contact Consortium; and Amy Bruckman, MIT Media Lab

This session will feature a demonstration of Internet-hosted virtual worlds inhabited by communities of users represented as avatars. These environments feature cityscapes and other environments built by some of the estimated quarter million users. The panel which follows will address the challenges the opportunities posed by this new medium for cooperating communities and interaction design.