What's a Note?

Annotated List of Notes Examples from past CSCW conferences

Here are some examples from CSCW 2006 that are contributions that are appropriate for the size of a Note. Pointers are given to the papers in the ACM Digital Library, as well as an annotation of the attributes that make it a good fit for the Notes venue.

• David Fono and Scott Counts, Sandboxes: Supporting Social Play through Collaborative Multimedia Composition on Mobile Phones

  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1180875.1180900

  This Note introduces a novel prototype that enables mobile phone users to allow groups of people to collaboratively create a multimedia collage. The Note describes the design and implementation and a trial deployment among three groups of people.

• Stephanie Wilson, Julia Galliers, and James Fone, Not all Sharing is Equal: The Impact of a Large Display on Small Group Collaborative Work

  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1180875.1180880

  This Note reports on a cognitive ethnography of adding a shared, public display to the team practice during a medical shift change. This specific change illuminated some subtle public/private issues around access to shared information in this team work setting.

• Wendy Kellogg et al., Leveraging Digital Backchannels to Enhance User Experience in Electronically Mediated Communication

  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1180875.1180943

  This Note describes a VoIP meeting system (Rendezvous) and some preliminary user feedback (survey) of usage within the company. The design and user reactions illustrate a previously published framework of social translucence.

• Jens Riegelsberger, Scott Counts, Shelly D. Farnham, and Bruce C. Phillips, Sounds Good to Me: Effects of Photo and Voice Profiles on Gaming Partner Choice

  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1180875.1180899

  This Note presents an empirical study of how people choose online gaming partners based on three kinds of online profiles: text only, text & photo, and text & voice. While other aspects of this work are reported elsewhere, this Note focuses on an analysis of how the different modalities of profile information affects people's preferences.

• Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison, and Charles Steinfield, A Face(book) in the Crowd: Social Searching vs. Social Browsing http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1180875.1180901

  This study of a contemporary system (facebook) explores a very specific question-do people use facebook to search for people they've already encountered in real life or browse for new people to meet? The analysis of an extensive survey (over 2500 responses) focuses on this specific observation.

• Sofiane Gueddana and Nicolas Roussel, Pèle-Mèle, a video communication system supporting a variable degree of engagement

  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1180875.1180938

  This Note introduces a video communication system for users in a home setting that offers novel interfaces to indicate whether users are available, engaged, or away. Screenshots of the interface, an implementation overview, and informal testing experiences are described, but a full user study is left for future work.

• John C. Tang et al., Unobtrusive but Invasive: Using Screen Recording to Collect Field Data on Computer-Mediated Interaction

  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1180875.1180948

  This Note describes a variation on an observational methodology (using computer screen recording instead of video cameras) and reflects on some observations that were enabled as well as some problems encountered in using it. The Note contributes a new approach to a methodology that others in the community could apply.

• Danyel Fisher et al., Revisiting Whittaker & Sidner's "email overload" ten years later

  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1180875.1180922

  This Note reflects on a seminal paper from ten years ago, comparing it to data that they have recently collected on email usage. Besides providing updated data, this Note provides some insight about what has changed and what is still true about email usage today.