Conference Program

Meredith Morris, Mark Newman, Demonstrations Chairs

Bluegrass: Embedding a Virtual World in a Collaborative Software Development Environment
Steven L. Rohall, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Li-Te Chang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Bluegrass, a virtual world embedded in a collaborative software development environment, is exploring how 3D worlds can help distributed software teams perform as if co-located.

Collaboration Central: Combining Teams Around the Globe
Adam Pace, Neumont University
Adam Bogue, Circle Twelve Inc
Alan Esenther, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs

Multi-user DiamondTouch table + Network-based online collaboration software built on Adobe Acrobat Connect / Cocomo = Solution for supporting meetings between two geographically separated teams.

APOSDLE Contextualized Cooperation
Marleen Musielak, Fraunhofer Institute for Comptuer Graphics Rostock
Sybille Hambach, Fraunhofer Institute for Comptuer Graphics Rostock
Conny Christl, Innovation Service Network

APOSDLE Contextualized Cooperation aims at guiding a knowledge worker in cooperating with his fellow knowledge workers especially in order to support informal learning.

Design Patterns to Augment Collaborative Parametric Design
Cheryl Zhenyu Qian, Simon Fraser University
Victor YingjieChen, Simon Fraser University
Robert F. Woodbury, Simon Fraser University

This demonstration reports research on discovering, understanding, authoring, and communicating the mid-level patterns that recur across digital design practices in collaborative parametric design.

AccessFabrik: High Definition Collaboration Tools
Michael Murphy, Ryerson University
Many Ayromlou, Ryerson University
Michael Lawrie, Ryerson University
Michael Dick, Ryerson University
Ron Rankine, Ryerson University

This demo highlights a new, high-definition shared-space environment, as well as automated captioning and translation services developed by the lab that enhance the collaborative experience.

Looking through the Keyhole: Snippet Sharing in Close Collaborations
Les Nelson, PARC
Diana Smetters, PARC
Elizabeth F. Churchill, Yahoo! Research

People share entire documents when portions would suffice. Overload and loss of focus arises. Keyholes are annotations indicating what gets shared, with whom, and why.

Automatic Citation Visualization for Collaborative Content Creation and Sharing Platform
Masahiro Hamasaki, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Koichiro Eto, AIST
Kuniaki Watanabe, AIST
Sri Kurniawan, University of California Santa Cruz
Takuichi Nishimura, AIST

In this demonstration, we present the system called Modulobe and show automatic citation visualization. Furthermore, participants can try to create 3D models using the system.

MultiPresenter: A Presentation System for Multiple and High-Resolution Displays
Joel Lanir, University of British Columbia
Kellogg S. Booth, University of British Columbia

MultiPresenter is a novel multi-screen presentation system providing enhanced persistency of information and focus on dynamic presentations with the goal of promoting audiences' learning.

Collaborative, Search-Based Note-Taking in Lecture Context
Roshni Malani, University of California San Diego
William G. Griswold, University of California San Diego

Discover a collaborative note-taking tool that automatically shares selfish individual search actions and search results with students during lecture with minimal additional overhead.

Supporting Mobile Cooperative Services Across 3G Cellular Networks
Kharsim Yousef, University of Bath
Eamonn O'Neill, University of Bath

Our novel solution enables the use of mobile cellular devices to collaborate through a shared visual workspace supported by verbal communication whilst on the go.

Cerchiamo: A Collaborative Exploratory Search Tool
Gene Golovchinsky, FXPalo Alto Laboratory
John Adcock, FXPalo Alto Laboratory
Jeremy Pickens, FXPalo Alto Laboratory
Pernilla Qvarfordt, FXPalo Alto Laboratory
Maribeth Back, FX Palo Alto Laboratory

Using Cerchiamo, teams of people can work together to search for documents. Cerchiamo mediates the search to allow asynchronous search behavior but synchronous influence.

Pushing Relevant Artifact Annotations
Uri Dekel, Carnegie Mellon University
James D. Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University

We describe how eMoose, a group memory-aid, addresses problems by visually "pushing" annotated knowledge from invocation targets into the invoking code. (See accompanying presentation Monday 10:30-12:00)

Minimum Movement Matters: Impact of Robot-Mounted Cameras on Social Telepresence
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Osaka University
Yuki Murakami, Osaka University
Daisuke Nogami, Osaka University
Hiroshi Ishiguro, Osaka University

Shows that forward-backward movement of a robot-mounted camera facilitates the transmission of the presence of a person interacting with the robot to the robot operator. (See accompanying presentation Tuesday 10:30-12:00)

SPARCS: Exploring Sharing Suggestions to Enhance Family Connectedness
A.J. Bernheim Brush, Microsoft Research
Kori M Inkpen, Microsoft Research

Results from a five-week field study with 7 pairs of families highlight a number of important features for an ideal photo sharing system to help families stay connected, including asynchronous chat and easily configurable sharing suggestions. (See accompanying presentation Wednesday 10:30-12:00)

Public vs. Private - Comparing Public Social Network Information with Email
Ido Guy, IBM Research Haifa Lab
Michal Jacovi, IBM Research Haifa Lab
Noga Meshulam, IBM Research Haifa Lab
Inbal Ronen, IBM Research Haifa Lab
Elad Shahar, IBM Research Haifa Lab

Email is the most commonly used source for social network analysis. But in the Web 2.0 era, can public social sources suggest a better alternative. (See accompanying presentation Tuesday 15:00-16:30)

The Computational Geowiki: What, Why, and How
Reid Priedhorsky, University of Minnesota
Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota

We present the design and implementation of a novel geographic application, the computational geowiki, with empirical results showing the utility and necessity of its features. (See accompanying presentation Tuesday 08:30-10:00)

CoMaya: Incorporating Advanced Collaboration Capabilities into 3D Digital Media Design Tools
Agustina Agustina, Nanyang Technological University
Fei Liu, Nanyang Technological University
Steven Xia, Nanyang Technological University
Haifeng Shen, Nanyang Technological University
Chengzheng Sun, Nanyang Technological University

Discover how to build advanced real-time collaborative 3D design tools without reinventing the wheels. (See accompanying presentation Monday 10:30-12:00)

Meeting Mediator: Enhancing Group Collaborationusing Sociometric Feedback
Taemie Kim, MIT
Agnes Chang, MIT
Lindsey Holland, MIT
Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT

We present the Meeting Mediator (MM), a real-time portable system that detects social interactions and provides persuasive feedback to enhance group collaboration. (See accompanying presentation Tuesday 17:00-18:30)

Social Summarization: Does Social Feedback Improve Access to Speech Data?
Vaiva Kalnikaite, The University of Sheffield
Steve Whittaker, The University of Sheffield

We extend the notion of social tagging to construct social summaries of complex multimedia materials. (See accompanying presentation Monday 10:30-12:00)

Imprint, a community visualization of printer data: designing for open-ended engagement on sustainability
Zachary Pousman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Hafez Rouzati, Georgia Institute of Technology
John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology

We introduce Imprint, a casual information visualization kiosk that displays data extracted from a printer queue. (See accompanying presentation Monday 10:30-12:00)

Beehive: Social Networking inside the Enterprise
Joan DiMicco, IBM Research
Casey Dugan, IBM Research
Werner Geyer, IBM Research

Beehive is an internal social networking site that gives enterprise users a "rich connection to the people they work with" on both a personal and a professional level. Beehive helps employees make new connections, track current friends and coworkers, and renew contacts with people they have worked with in the past. (See two accompanying presentations Wednesday 15:00-16:30)