Jeremy P. Birnholtz
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» 2008 «
Birnholtz, Jeremy P., Gutwin, Carl, Ramos, Gonzalo and Watson, Mark (2008): OpenMessenger: gradual initiation of interaction for distributed workgroups. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 1661-1664. Available online
“The initiation of interaction in face-to-face environments is a gradual process, and takes place in a rich information landscape of awareness, attention, and social signals. One of the main benefits of this process is that people can be more sensitive to issues of privacy and interruption while they are moving towards interaction. However, on-line communication tools do not provide this subtlety, and often lead to unwanted interruptions. We have developed a prototype message system called OpenMessenger (OM) that adds the idea of gradual initiation of interaction to on-line communication. OpenMessenger provides multiple levels of awareness about people, and provides notification to those about whom information is being gathered. OpenMessenger allows people to negotiate interaction in a richer fashion than is possible with any other current messaging system. Preliminary evaluation data suggest the utility of the approach, but also shows that there are a number of issues yet to be resolved in this area.”
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» 2007 «
Birnholtz, Jeremy P., Grossman, Tovi, Mak, Clarissa and Balakrishnan, Ravin (2007): An exploratory study of input configuration and group process in a negotiation task using a large display. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007. pp. 91-100. Available online
“This paper reports on an exploratory study of the effects of input configuration on group behavior and performance in a collaborative task performed by a collocated group using a large display. Twelve groups completed a mixed-motive negotiation task under two conditions: a single, shared mouse and one mouse per person. Results suggest that the multiple mouse condition allowed for more parallel work, but the quality of discussion was higher in the single mouse condition. Moreover, participants were more likely to act in their own best interest in the multiple mouse condition.”
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Ranjan, Abhishek, Birnholtz, Jeremy P. and Balakrishnan, Ravin (2007): Dynamic shared visual spaces: experimenting with automatic camera control in a remote repair task. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007. pp. 1177-1186. Available online
“We present an experimental study of automatic camera control in the performance of collaborative remote repair tasks using video-mediated communication. Twelve pairs of participants, one "helper" and one "worker," completed a series of Lego puzzle tasks using both a static camera and an automatic camera system that was guided in part by tracking the worker's hand position. Results show substantial performance benefits for the automatic system, particularly for complex tasks. The implications of these results are discussed, along with some lessons for the use of motion tracking as a driver for camera control.”
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Birnholtz, Jeremy P., Gutwin, Carl and Hawkey, Kirstie (2007): Privacy in the open: how attention mediates awareness and privacy in open-plan offices. In: GROUP07: International Conference on Supporting Group Work 2007. pp. 51-60. Available online
“The tension between privacy and awareness has been a persistent difficulty in distributed environments that support opportunistic and informal interaction. For example, many awareness systems that display 'always-on' video links or PC screen contents have been perceived as too invasive, even though functional real-world analogues, like open-plan offices, may provide even less privacy than their online counterparts. In this paper we explore the notion of privacy in open-plan real-world environments, in order to learn more about how it might be supported in distributed systems. From interviews and observations in four open-plan offices, we found that attention plays an important role in the management of both confidentiality and solitude. The public nature of paying attention allows people to build understandings of what objects in a space are legitimate targets for attention and allows people to advertise their interest in interaction. Our results add to what is known about how privacy works in real-world spaces, and suggest valuable design ideas that can help improve support for natural privacy control and interaction in distributed awareness systems.”
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Birnholtz, Jeremy P. (2007): When do researchers collaborate? Toward a model of collaboration propensity. In JASIST - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58 (14) pp. 2226-2239
Baecker, Ronald M., Birnholtz, Jeremy P., Causey, Rhys, Laughton, Simone, Rankin, Kelly, Mak, Clarissa, Weir, Alison and Wolf, Peter (2007): Webcasting Made Interactive: Integrating Real-Time Videoconferencing in Distributed Learning Spaces. In: Smith, Michael J. and Salvendy, Gavriel (eds.) Symposium on Human Interface 2007 - Part II July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. pp. 269-278. Available online
» 2006 «
Ranjan, Abhishek, Birnholtz, Jeremy P. and Balakrishnan, Ravin (2006): An exploratory analysis of partner action and camera control in a video-mediated collaborative task. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW06 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2006. pp. 403-412. Available online
“This paper reports on an exploratory experimental study of the relationships between physical movement and desired visual information in the performance of video-mediated collaborative tasks in the real world by geographically distributed groups. Twenty-three pairs of participants (one "helper" and one "worker") linked only by video and audio participated in a Lego construction task in one of three experimental conditions: a fixed scene camera, a helper-controlled pan-tilt-zoom camera, and a dedicated operator-controlled camera. "Worker" motion was tracked in 3-D space for all three conditions, as were all camera movements. Results suggest performance benefits for the operator-controlled condition, and the relationships between camera position/movement and worker action are explored to generate preliminary theoretical and design implications.”
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Birnholtz, Jeremy P. (2006): What does it mean to be an author? The intersection of credit, contribution, and collaboration in science. In JASIST - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57 (13) pp. 1758-1770
» 2005 «
Birnholtz, Jeremy P., Finholt, Thomas A., Horn, Daniel and Bae, Sung Joo (2005): Grounding needs: achieving common ground via lightweight chat in large, distributed, ad-hoc groups. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2005. pp. 21-30. Available online
“This paper reports on the emergent use of lightweight text chat to provide important grounding and facilitation information in a large, distributed, ad-hoc group of researchers participating in a live experiment. The success of chat in this setting suggests a critical re-examination and extension of Clark and Brennan's work on grounding in communication. Specifically, it is argued that there are some settings characterized by reduced information and clarification needs, where the use of extremely lightweight tools (such as basic text chat) can be sufficient for achieving common ground - even when conversational participants are unknown to each other. Theoretical and design implications are then presented.”
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» 2004 «
Almes, Guy, Cummings, Jonathon, Birnholtz, Jeremy P., Foster, Ian, Hey, Tony and Spencer, Bill (2004): CSCW and cyberinfrastructure: opportunities and challenges. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW04 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2004. pp. 270-273. Available online
“This panel will provide a forum for a discussion of important and timely issues surrounding the global deployment of cyberinfrastructure to support science and engineering research activities. Representatives of funding agencies, existing cyberinfrastructure projects, specific technologies and social scientists involved in the evaluation of these technologies will be brought together to address questions about the key obstacles to the operational deployment of cyberinfrastructure, whether or not cyberinfrastructure will improve research, and what the role of the CSCW community is and can or should be in this deployment.”
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Horn, Daniel, Finholt, Thomas A., Birnholtz, Jeremy P., Motwani, Dheeraj and Jayaraman, Swapnaa (2004): Six degrees of Jonathan Grudin: a social network analysis of the evolution and impact of CSCW research. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW04 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2004. pp. 582-591. Available online
“In this paper, we describe the evolution and impact of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) research through social network analysis of coauthorship data. A network of authors as nodes and shared papers as links is used to compare patterns of growth and collaboration in CSCW with other domains, such as high-energy physics and computer science. Further, the coauthorship network data are used to depict dynamic changes in the structure of CSCW collaborations over time. Examination of these changes shows high volatility in the composition of the CSCW research community over decade-long time spans. These data are augmented by a brief citation analysis of recent CSCW conferences. We discuss the implications of the CSCW findings in terms of the influence of CSCW research on the larger field of HCI research as well as the general utility of social network analysis for understanding patterns of collaboration.”
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» 2003 «
Birnholtz, Jeremy P. and Bietz, Matthew J. (2003): Data at work: supporting sharing in science and engineering. In: Tremaine, Marilyn and Simone, Carla (eds.) Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work 2003 November 9-12, 2003, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA. pp. 339-348. Available online
“Data are a fundamental component of science and engineering work, and the ability to share data is critical to the validation and progress of science. Data sharing and reuse in some fields, however, has proven to be a difficult problem. This paper argues that the development of effective CSCW systems to support data sharing in work groups requires a better understanding of the use of data in practice. Drawing on our work with three scientific disciplines, we show that data play two general roles in scientific communities: 1) they serve as evidence to support scientific inquiry, and 2) they make a social contribution to the establishment and maintenance of communities of practice. A clearer consideration and understanding of these roles can contribute to the design of more effective data sharing systems. We suggest that this can be achieved through supporting social interaction around data abstractions, reaching beyond current metadata models, and supporting the social roles of data.”
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