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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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Elliot, Kathryn, Watson, Mark, Neustaedter, Carman and Greenberg, Saul (2007): Location-dependent information appliances for the home. In: Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Graphics Interface 2007. pp. 151-158. Available online

“Ethnographic studies of the home revealed the fundamental roles that physical locations and context play in how household members understand and manage conventional information. Yet we also know that digital information is becoming increasingly important to households. The problem is that this digital information is almost always tied to traditional computer displays, which inhibits its incorporation into household routines. Our solution, location-dependent information appliances, exploit both home location and context (as articulated in ethnographic studies) to enhance the role of ambient displays in the home setting; these displays provide home occupants with both background awareness of an information source and foreground methods to gain further details if desired. The novel aspect is that home occupants assign particular information to locations within a home in a way that makes sense to them. As a device is moved to a particular home location, information is automatically mapped to that device along with hints on how it should be displayed.”

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Gutwin, Carl, Fedak, Christopher, Watson, Mark, Dyck, Jeff and Bell, Tim (2006): Improving network efficiency in real-time groupware with general message compression. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW06 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2006. pp. 119-128. Available online

“Groupware communicates by sending messages across the network, and groupware programmers use a variety of formats for these messages, such as XML, plain text, or serialized objects. Although these formats have many advantages, they are often so verbose that they overload the system's network resources. Groupware programmers could improve efficiency by using more compact formats, but this efficiency comes at the cost of increased complexity, reduced convenience, and reduced readability. In this paper we propose an alternate approach for improving efficiency -- an automatic compression system that transparently minimizes verbose formats. Our general message compressor -- GMC -- automatically finds and removes redundancy in message streams, without any knowledge of the contents or structure of the message, and without any need for the programmer to change the way they work. In tests with realistic message traces, GMC reduced text messages to 20% of their original size, XML messages”

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Luby, Mike, Watson, Mark, Gasiba, Tiago and Stockhammer, Thomas (2006): Mobile data broadcasting over MBMS tradeoffs in forward error correction. In: Setlur, Vidya (ed.) MUM 2006 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia December 4-6, 2006, Stanford, California, USA. p. 10. Available online

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Publication period:2006-2008
Publication count:4
Number of co-authors:12

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Mark Watson's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Saul Greenberg:112
Carl Gutwin:87
Carman Neustaedter:15

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Carl Gutwin:2
Gonzalo Ramos:1
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