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Course evaluation
Pick an article in any of the reading lists below and prepare a 5-10 minute presentation (1 article per student).
See the list of articles at the end of the page. Articles will be presented on Friday 1 March in room D204 starting at 1:30pm.
Program a small collaborative tool, or extend an existing one (1 or 2 students per project).
See the list of projects at the end of the page. The projects will be presented on Friday 1 March in room D204 starting at 1:30pm.
Written individual exam 22 February 2013, 10:00-12:00, room E105
Only allowed document: a single A4 sheet, handwritten by you
Students
Jessalyn Alvina
Omar Benkirane (Supelec)
Weiya Chen (Ph.D. student)
Evanthia Dimara
Carla Griggio (M1-HCID)
Hao Hu (Polytech)
Paul Issartel
Thibaut Jacob
Germán Leiva (M1-HCID)
Myriam Lekkal
Qasim Malik
Lan Qi (Polytech)
Course Summary
This course presents computer-supported collaborative systems, which allow a group of people, wheter they are collocated or not, to work together while sharing computer artifacts. The course covers groupware and mediated interaction, including a state-of-the-art of interactive systems for coordination, communication and collaboration with groups of users across time and space. The course also covers Collaborative Virtual Environments, a research area at the intersection of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, teleoperation, high-bandwidth communication, human-computer interaction and collaborative teleworking. Finally it covers recent developments such as social networks and crowdsourcing.
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Homework
Watch the above videos;
Place a number of the systems that were presented in each of the two taxonomies that we saw in class (Communication/Sharing/Coordination Venn diagram and Place/Time matrix) .
Study the video-based communication tools that are available to you: Skype, Google hangouts, FaceTime, etc. What are their main features?
Ask people around you if and how they use these tools. When do they work well? When do they break down?
Ask people around you how they shift between different communication tools: email, chat, SMS, telephone, video call, etc.
Readings
Books :
The Information, James Gleick (2012) - this book covers much more than mediated communication, but has fascinating stories about the development of pre-telephone communication systems
Groupware - Some Issues and Experiences. C.A. Ellis, S.J. Gibbs and G.L Rein, Communications of the ACM, 1991. (Describes GROVE towards the end of the paper)
Design and Use of a Group Editor, Ellis, Gibbs and Rein, in Cockton (Ed.), Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction, North-Holland, 1990. (Describes GROVE but not available online)
Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets - Research article showing how the anonymized dataset from the Netflix contest could be deanonymized by correlating it with other, non-anonymous, sources (such as the IMDb database)
VideoProbe: Sharing Pictures of Everyday Life, Conversy, Mackay, Beaudouin-Lafon and Roussel, Technical Report, 2005.
Weiya Chen
Group Editors, Prakash, in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Beaudouin-Lafon (ed), Wiley (1999)
Evanthia Dimara
Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside, Bernstein, Little, Miller, Hartmann, Ackerman, Karger, Crowell and Panovich, Proc. UIST 2010
Hao Hu
The user-centered iterative design of collaborative writing software, Baecker, Nastos, Posner and Mawby, in Proc. INTERCHI 93, 1993.
Paul Issartel
WYSIWIS Revised: Early Experiences with Multi-User Interfaces, Stefik, Bobrow, Lanning and Tatar, ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems (TOIS), 1986.
Thibaut Jacob
Beyong The Chalkboard: Computer Support For Collaboration And Problem Solving, Stefik, Foster, Bobrow, Kahn, Lanning and Suchman, Communications of the ACM, 1986.
Myriam Lekkal
Technology Probes : inspiring design for and with families, Hutchinson, Mackay, Westerlund, Bederson, Druin, Plaisant, Beaudouin-Lafon, Conversy, Evans, Hansen, Roussel, Eiderbäck, in Proc. ACM CHI, 2003.
Qasim Malik
Concurrency Control in Groupware Systems, Ellis and Gibbs, in Proc. SIGMOD'89
Lan Qi
An Algorithm for Distributed Groupware Applications, Karsenty and Beaudouin-Lafon, in Proc. ICDCS'93
