About Contact Help us

HCI, User Experience, Information Architecture, Usability, and more

“I use free sources like Interaction-Design.org so often that I have an obligation to recognize its value and support its continued presence”

---Stephen J. Kidd

Last 3 Donors

1. Stephen J. Kidd

2. Maria Hull

3. Rosemary J. Bennett

...more generous donors

Support us

Funding progress for 2010:

References

Authors

James D. Thornton

Printer-friendly

How to cite

James D. Thornton

Has also published under the name of:
"James Thornton"

About the author:
No description available of James D. Thornton...

ADD DESCRIPTION

← Button will not work: You have not enabled Javascript. How do I enable it?

ADD PUBLICATION

← Button will not work: You have not enabled Javascript. How do I enable it?

SHARE YOUR RESEARCH

← Button will not work: You have not enabled Javascript. How do I enable it?

Publications by James D. Thornton (bibliography)

» 2008 «

Edit | Del

Ducheneaut, Nicolas, Moore, Robert J., Oehlberg, Lora, Thornton, James D. and Nickell, Eric (2008): Social TV: Designing for Distributed, Sociable Television Viewing. In International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 24 (2) pp. 136-154

“Media research has shown that people enjoy watching television as a part of socializing in groups. However, many constraints in daily life limit the opportunities for doing so. The Social TV project builds on the increasing integration of television and computer technology to support sociable, computer-mediated group viewing experiences. In this article, we describe the initial results from a series of studies illustrating how people interact in front of a television set. Based on these results, we propose guidelines as well as specific features to inform the design of future "social television" prototypes.”

Copyrights may apply

Edit | Del

Frisch, AEleen, Kandogan, Eser, Lutters, Wayne G., Thornton, James D. and Mouloua, Mustapha (eds.) CHIMIT 2008 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology November 14-15, 2008, San Diego, California, USA.

» 2006 «

Edit | Del

Aoki, Paul M., Szymanski, Margaret H., Plurkowski, Luke, Thornton, James D., Woodruff, Allison and Yi, Weilie (2006): Where's the "party" in "multi-party"?: analyzing the structure of small-group sociable talk. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW06 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2006. pp. 393-402. Available online

“Spontaneous multi-party interaction -- conversation among groups of three or more participants -- is part of daily life. While automated modeling of such interactions has received increased attention in ubiquitous computing research, there is little applied research on the organization of this highly dynamic and spontaneous sociable interaction within small groups. We report here on an applied conversation analytic study of small-group sociable talk, emphasizing structural and temporal aspects that can inform computational models. In particular, we examine the mechanics of multiple simultaneous conversational floors -- how participants initiate a new floor amidst an on-going floor, and how they subsequently show their affiliation with one floor over another. We also discuss the implications of these findings for the design of "smart" multi-party applications.”

Copyrights may apply

» 2003 «

Edit | Del

Aoki, Paul M., Romaine, Matthew, Szymanski, Margaret H., Thornton, James D., Wilson, Daniel and Woodruff, Allison (2003): The mad hatter's cocktail party: a social mobile audio space supporting multiple simultaneous conversations. In: Cockton, Gilbert and Korhonen, Panu (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2003 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 5-10, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. pp. 425-432.

» 2002 «

Edit | Del

Aoki, Paul M., Grinter, Rebecca E., Hurst, Amy, Szymanski, Margaret H., Thornton, James D. and Woodruff, Allison (2002): Sotto voce: exploring the interplay of conversation and mobile audio spaces. In: Terveen, Loren (ed.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 20-25, 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota. pp. 431-438.

Edit | Del

Grinter, Rebecca E., Aoki, Paul M., Szymanski, Margaret H., Thornton, James D., Woodruff, Allison and Hurst, Amy (2002): Revisiting the visit: understanding how technology can shape the museum visit. In: Churchill, Elizabeth F., McCarthy, Joe, Neuwirth, Christine and Rodden, Tom (eds.) Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work November 16 - 20, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. pp. 146-155. Available online

“This paper reports findings from a study of how a guidebook was used by pairs of visitors touring a historic house. We describe how the guidebook was incorporated into their visit in four ways: shared listening, independent use, following one another, and checking in on each other. We discuss how individual and groupware features were adopted in support of different visiting experiences, and illustrate how that adoption was influenced by social relationships, the nature of the current visit, and any museum visiting strategies that the couples had. Finally, we describe how the guidebook facilitated awareness between couples, and how awareness of non-guidebook users (strangers) influenced use.”

Copyrights may apply

» 2000 «

Edit | Del

Dourish, Paul, Edwards, W. Keith, LaMarca, Anthony, Lamping, John, Petersen, Karin, Salisbury, Michael, Terry, Douglas B. and Thornton, James D. (2000): Extending document management systems with user-specific active properties. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 18 (2) pp. 140-170

“Document properties are a compelling infrastructure on which to develop document management applications. A property-based approach avoids many of the problems of traditional hierarchical storage mechanisms, reflects document organizations meaningful to user tasks, provides a means to integrate the perspectives of multiple individuals and groups, and does this all within a uniform interaction framework. Document properties can reflect not only categorizations of documents and document use, but also expressions of desired system activity, such as sharing criteria, replication management, and versioning. Augmenting property-based document management systems with active properties that carry executable code enables the provision of document-based services on a property infrastructure. The combination of document properties as a uniform mechanism for document management, and active properties as a way of delivering document services, represents a new paradigm for document management infrastructures. The Placeless Documents system is an experimental prototype developed to explore this new paradigm. It is based on the seamless integration of user-specific, active properties. We present the fundamental design approach, explore the challenges and opportunities it presents, and show our architectures deals with them.”

Copyrights may apply

ADD PUBLICATION

← Button will not work: You have not enabled Javascript. How do I enable it?

SHOW THIS LIST ON YOUR HOMEPAGE

What do YOU think?

Give us your opinion! Do you have any comments/additions
that you would like other visitors to see?

You say: Mar 22nd, 2010

Be the first to add a thoughtful note to this page !

Changes to this page (author)

26 Feb 2010: Enabled abstracts to be shown on James D. Thornton's author page.
01 Sep 2009: Author was edited

01 Sep 2009: Author was edited
01 Sep 2009: Author was edited
01 Sep 2009: Author was edited
01 Sep 2009: Author was edited
01 Sep 2009: Author was edited
01 Sep 2009: Author was edited
01 Sep 2009: Author was edited
01 Sep 2009: Author was edited
01 Sep 2009: Author was edited
01 Sep 2009: Author was edited
01 Sep 2009: Author was edited
01 Sep 2009: Author was edited
01 Sep 2009: Author was edited
05 Jun 2009: Author was edited
22 Jun 2007: Author was edited
28 Apr 2003: Added the author to the bibliography
28 Apr 2003: Added the author to the bibliography

Publication statistics

Publication period:2000-2008
Publication count:7
Number of co-authors:24

Productive colleagues

James D. Thornton's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Paul Dourish:79
Rebecca E. Grinter:45
W. Keith Edwards:44

Collaboration count

Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Margaret H. Szymanski:4
Paul M. Aoki:4
Allison Woodruff:4

Other options

Learn more about James D. Thornton:
- Google Scholar
- ACM
- CSB

Conference Calendar

Mar 24

SIDeR '10 - Ingredients in Gradients - 6th edition of the Student Interaction Design Research Conf.

Apr 03

IEEE Students' Techn. Symp. '10

Apr 07

Information Architecture Summit

Mar 22

“ I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world. ”

-- Walter Mossberg ”

Share this quote on...
Get more quotes

Eva Hornecker on Tangible Interaction

Eva Hornecker explains the evolving concept of Tangible Interaction.

Read Eva's insightful entry here..

Help us help you!

Spread the word:
Donate
Other ways to help

Last 3 Donors

Support us

James D. Thornton

Publications by James D. Thornton (bibliography)

» 2008 «

» 2006 «

» 2003 «

» 2002 «

» 2000 «

What do YOU think?

Changes to this page (author)

Publication statistics

Productive colleagues

Collaboration count

Other options

Conference Calendar

Eva Hornecker on Tangible Interaction

Help us help you!

Page information