Michal Jacovi
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» 2009 «
Aizenbud-Reshef, Netta, Guy, Ido and Jacovi, Michal (2009): Collaborative feed reading in a community. In: GROUP09 - International Conference on Supporting Group Work 2009. pp. 277-280. Available online
“Feed readers have emerged as one of the salient applications that characterize Web 2.0. Lately, some of the available readers introduced social features, analogously to other Web 2.0 applications, such as recommendations and tagging. Yet, most of the readers lack collaborative features, such as the ability to share feeds in a community or divide the reading task among community members. In this paper we describe CoffeeReader, a web-based feed reader, which combines social and collaborative features, and is deployed in a small community within our company. CoffeeReader provides awareness of other users' feed lists and read status; it enables information sharing such as tags and recommendations; and aims to support coordination of filtering through feeds to locate important items. We compare these group collaboration features of CoffeeReader with emerging features in publicly available feed readers; present the outcomes of using CoffeeReader within our community; and discuss our findings and their implications on making feed readers more collaborative.”
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» 2008 «
Guy, Ido, Jacovi, Michal, Shahar, Elad, Meshulam, Noga, Soroka, Vladimir and Farrell, Stephen (2008): Harvesting with SONAR: the value of aggregating social network information. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 1017-1026. Available online
“Web 2.0 gives people a substantial role in content and metadata creation. New interpersonal connections are formed and existing connections become evident through Web 2.0 services. This newly created social network (SN) spans across multiple services and aggregating it could bring great value. In this work we present SONAR, an API for gathering and sharing SN information. We give a detailed description of SONAR, demonstrate its potential value through user scenarios, and show results from experiments we conducted with a SONAR-based social networking application. These suggest that aggregating SN information across diverse data sources enriches the SN picture and makes it more complete and useful for the end user.”
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Aizenbud-Reshef, Neta, Belinsky, Eran, Jacovi, Michal, Laufer, David and Soroka, Vladimir (2008): Pensieve: augmenting human memory. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 3231-3236. Available online
“Human memory is fallible. We remember certain things, while we completely forget others. Some of the events we experience end up stored in our episodic memory, others disappear completely. Even those stored, very often remain inaccessible, since we do not have reliable mechanisms to retrieve them when required. In this paper we describe Pensieve, a system for augmenting episodic memory, that facilitates capturing of events and retrieving them later, using various relevant cues and associative browsing.”
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Guy, Ido, Jacovi, Michal, Meshulam, Noga, Ronen, Inbal and Shahar, Elad (2008): Public vs. private: comparing public social network information with email. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW08 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2008. pp. 393-402. Available online
“The goal of this research is to facilitate the design of systems which will mine and use sociocentric social networks without infringing privacy. We describe an extensive experiment we conducted within our organization comparing social network information gathered from various intranet public sources with social network information gathered from a private source -- the organizational email system. We also report the conclusions of a series of interviews we conducted based on our experiment. The results shed light on the richness of public social network information, its characteristics, and added value over email network information.”
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» 2006 «
Jacovi, Michal, Soroka, Vladimir, Gilboa-Freedman, Gail, Ur, Sigalit, Shahar, Elad and Marmasse, Natalia (2006): The chasms of CSCW: a citation graph analysis of the CSCW conference. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW06 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2006. pp. 289-298. Available online
“The CSCW conference is celebrating its 20th birthday. This is a perfect time to analyze the coherence of the field, to examine whether it has a solid core or sub-communities, and to identify various patterns of its development. In this paper we analyze the structure of the CSCW conference using structural analysis of the citation graph of CSCW and related publications. We identify the conference's core and most prominent clusters. We also define a measure to identify chasm-papers, namely papers cited significantly more outside the conference than within, and analyze such papers.”
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» 2004 «
Soroka, Vladimir and Jacovi, Michal (2004): The diffusion of reachOut: analysis and framework for the successful diffusion of collaboration technologies. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW04 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2004. pp. 314-323. Available online
“While virtual communities become more and more dominant, little attention has been directed towards understanding the conditions for creating a successful community. Significant progress has been made in understanding the diffusion of collaborative tools in the workplace. We read stories about the extraordinary success of some communities, and about the harsh failure of others. This paper argues that lessons learnt from these stories should be analyzed using the theoretical foundations of Diffusion of Innovations theories, and systematized to create a set of guidelines for community creators to make their efforts more efficient. We begin by presenting a theoretical background for analyzing technology diffusion. We then analyze the stories of diffusion of ReachOut - a tool for peer support and community building developed in our Research Lab - in two different communities, using this theory. Finally, we propose a framework for planning for successful diffusion of collaborative tools, using our experiences with ReachOut.”
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» 2003 «
Jacovi, Michal, Soroka, Vladimir and Ur, Sigalit (2003): Why do we ReachOut?: functions of a semi-persistent peer support tool. 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. 161-169. Available online
“Collaboration plays a vital role in today's new business environment. Knowledge that resides within people's heads has become an invaluable resource. Many formal tools, such as e-mail or teamrooms, have been introduced to support formal collaboration and have been studied extensively. However, support for informal communication is still in its infancy. Much work has been done to analyze the functions that informal communication plays in the workplace. Recently, several studies have evaluated the roles that instant messaging (IM) plays in similar settings. Research shows that in the workplace, IM is used primarily for work-related purposes and accelerates the completion of important business tasks. Clearly, new tools that combine both formal and informal interaction can bring organizations tremendous rewards. ReachOut is a tool for semi-persistent collaboration and peer support developed by the Collaboration Technologies Group at the IBM Haifa Research Lab. This paper studies the role ReachOut plays in the workplace. We analyzed the collaboration activity of the community of IBM Haifa Labs employees who used ReachOut for a period of two months. As a result, we summarize the important functions played by tools that bridge between formal and informal communication in a workplace-based community.”
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» 2002 «
Ribak, Amnon, Jacovi, Michal and Soroka, Vladimir (2002): "Ask before you search": peer support and community building with ReachOut. 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. 126-135. Available online
“This paper presents ReachOut, a chat-based tool for peer support,
collaboration, and community building. We describe the philosophy behind the
tool and explain how posting questions in the open directly benefits the
creation, distribution, and use of organizational knowledge, in addition to
enhancing the cohesion of the community involved. ReachOut proposes new methods
of handling problems that include locating, selecting, and approaching the
right set of potential advisers. We discuss the advantages of public
discussions over private, one-on-one sessions, and how this is enhanced by our
unique combination of synchronous and asynchronous communication. We present
and analyze results from a pilot of ReachOut and conclude with plans for future
research and development.”
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Cohen, Doron, Jacovi, Michal, Maarek, Yoelle S. and Soroka, Vladimir (2002): Livemaps for collection awareness. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 56 (1) pp. 7-23
“With the increasing proliferation of chat applications on the web, the old
vision of "adding people" to the web is becoming a reality. Along with
collaboration tools, more and more sites offer people awareness mechanisms to
let the site visitors know about each other. This reflects the dual nature of
the web as a place for virtual meetings as well as an information repository.
While standalone chat tools became the killer application of the Internet,
site-related awareness applications did not quite catch on. In this work, we
suggest possible reasons for this phenomenon and propose a new paradigm for
awareness and social navigation. We identify three main obstacles to the
existing site-related awareness applications: high sensitivity to the "critical
mass" requirement, inflexible meeting place granularity and poor visitor
visibility. To address these issues, we extend the well-known "document
awareness" concept to a more general one that we call "collection awareness",
which better reflects the graph structure of the web. We introduce a new tool
for high-level awareness and collaboration, called Livemaps, which projects
live information onto a web site map. We demonstrate how Livemaps addresses the
obstacles we pointed out and describe a user study conducted on a "fan" web
site for the "Friends" comedy series, so as to verify whether Livemaps actually
improves social awareness.”
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