UNFOCUSED INTERACTION IN DISTRIBUTED WORKGROUPS

Related Work

Establishing group presence in a web-based environment


CAAD Futures
 Definitions
 Motivation
 Related Work
Compadres
 Evaluation
 Lessons Learned
 Agenda
 The End

Commercial Products
Focused Interaction tools (email, IRC, Netscape/MSIE, CUSeeMe, etc.)
Instant Messaging (ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, etc.)

Workplace Research
Schön, 1983 - Architectural Design Studio
Heath and Luff, 1996 - London Underground
Monk and Watts, 2000 - Televideo peripheral awareness

CMC/CSCW Research
Dourish and Bly, 1992, Portholes- video Media Space
Greenberg & Rounding, 2001, Notification Collage- Multimedia tackboard
Bradner, et al., 1999, Babble- Social discussion
Isaacs, et al., 2001, Hubbub- Audio messaging & presence