Proposal
CMC Patterns: representation and interaction [pdf]
Relevant topics:
Social Interaction
Visualisation
CMC Environments
Learning Communities (groups)
Key Places:
Sociable Media Group MIT MediaLab (smg) http://smg.media.mit.edu
Social Computing Group IBM (scg) http://www.research.ibm.com/SocialComputing
GroupLab Calgary (glab) http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/grouplab
More Places:
Group for User Interface Research (guir)
http://guir.berkeley.edu/projects/#cscw
Collaborative User Experience (CUE) Research group, formerly Lotus Research, IBM Watson Research Center
http://domino.research.ibm.com/cambridge/research.nsf/pages/cue.html?Open
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT), formerly GMD
http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/projekte/index_en.xml#p6
http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/profil/cscw_en.html
People:
Tom Erickson http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson
Judith Donath http://judith.www.media.mit.edu/Judith
Bonnie Nardi http://www.darrouzet-nardi.net/bonnie
Saul Greenburg
Ben Schniederman
Things:
Chat Circles, Loom2, PeopleGarden, Coterie, [smg]
Babble, Loops, [scg]
ContactMap
SpotFire
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Literature Review Papers:
Judith Donath (2002). A Semantic Approach to Visualizing Online Conversations [pdf] Communications of the ACM Volume 45, Issue 4 (April 2002)
Available: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/505248.505271 Got Review
Gives brief examples of systems developed at smg for visualising ‘conversations’ (loops2, coterie, ChatCircles and peopleGarden). The conclusion being that these systems can potentially highlight clues about communication exchanges that are not immediately apparent but which are central to understanding the interrelationships they depict.
