Publications
Peer-reviewed articles, chapters and books produced by members of the Social Computing Group during their tenure in the group. For other publications, see each person’s individual page.
2009
Gary Marchionini, Yaxiao Song, and Robert Farrell, “Multimedia surrogates for video gisting: Toward combining spoken words and imagery”. Information Processing & Management (IP&M), Volume 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 615-630.
Farrell, R. G., Danis, C. M., Erickson, T., Ellis, J. B., Christensen, J. E. Bailey, M. and Kellogg, W. A. A Picture and a Thousand Worlds: Visual Scaffolding for the Developing World. International Journal of Handheld Computing Research. In press, 2009.
Bessiere, K., Ellis, J.B., and Kellogg, W.A. Acquiring a Professional ‘Second Life:’ Problems and Prospects for the Use of Virtual Worlds in Business. In Extended Abstracts, CHI 2009. April 4-9, 2009.
Erickson, T. ‘Social’ Systems: Designing Digital Systems that Support Social Intelligence. AI and Society, 23:2, 147-166, 2009.
Erickson, T. Socio-Technical Design. Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems (eds. B. Whitworth and A de Moor), pp 333-334. IGI Global, March 2009.
Farrell, R., Shah, H., Erickson, T., and Kellogg, W.A. A Design Evaluation of a User Interface for Tending Long-Term Tasks. In Extended Abstracts, CHI 2009. April 4-9, 2009.
2008
Ackerman, M. S., Halverson, C. A., Erickson, T., and Kellogg, W. A. (eds.) Resources, Co-Evolution and Artifacts: Theory in CSCW. Springer, London, 2008.
Ellis, J.B., Luther, K., Bessiere, K., and Kellogg, W.A. Games for Virtual Team Building. Proceedings of ACM DIS 2008 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. February 25-27, 2008.
Danis, C. M., Viegas, F. B., Wattenberg, M., and Kriss, J. 2008. Your Place or Mine?: Visualization as a Community Component. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008. ACM, New York, NY, 275-284.
Danis, C.M. and Singer, D. A Wiki Instance in the Enterprise: Opportunities, Concerns, and Reality. Proceedings of ACM CSCW 2008. November 8-12, 2008.
Erickson, T., Danis, C., Kellogg, W. A., Helander, M. E.. Assistance: The Work Practices of Human Administrative Assistants and their Implications for IT and Organizations. Proc. CSCW ’08. ACM Press, 2008. ACM SIGCHI Best of CSCW 2008 Award.
Erickson, T. and McDonald, D. W. (eds) HCI Remixed: Essays on Works that have Influenced the HCI Community. MIT Press, 2008.
Erickson, T. “Knowing the Particulars.” In Erickson, T. and McDonald, D. W. (eds) HCI Remixed: Essays on Works that have Influenced the HCI Community. pp 87-91. MIT Press, 2008.
Erickson, T, Halverson, C. A., and Kellogg, W. A. Figuring Out How to Figure Out: Supporting Expertise Sharing in Online Systems. Resources, Co-Evolution and Artifacts: Theory in CSCW, pp. 95-144. Springer, London, 2008.
2007
Bellamy, R.K.E., Erickson, T., Fuller, B., Kellogg, W.A., Rosenbaum, R., Thomas, J.C., and Vetting Wolf, T. Seeing is Believing: Design Visualizations for Managing Risk and Compliance. IBM Systems Journal, 46:2, 207-218, 2007.’
Ding, X., Danis, C., Erickson, T., and Kellogg, W.A. Visualizing an Enterprise Wiki. Extended Abstracts, ACM CHI 2007. Semi-finalist, Student Research Competition.
Ding, X., Erickson, T., Kellogg, W.A., Levy, S., Christensen, J.E., Sussman, J., Wolf, T.V. and Bennett, W.E. An Empirical Study of the Use of Visually Enhanced VoIP Audio Conferencing: The Case of IEAC. The Proceedings of CHI 2007. New York: ACM Press, 2007.
Ellis, J.B., Wahid, S., Danis, C., and Kellogg, W.A.. Task and Social Visualization in Software Development: Evaluation of a Prototype. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. April 28-May 3, 2007. Honorable Mention – SIGCHI Best of CHI 2007 Award.
Huh, J., Jones, L., Erickson, T., Kellogg, W.A., Bellamy, R.K.E., and Thomas, J.C. BlogCentral: The Role of Internal Blogs at Work. Extended Abstracts, ACM CHI 2007.
2006
Christensen, J., Sussman, J., Levy, S., Bennett, W. E., Wolf, T. V., and Kellogg, W. A. 2006. Too Much Information. Queue 4, 6 (Jul. 2006), 50-57.
Danis, C. 2006. Forms of collaboration in high performance computing: exploring implications for learning. In Proceedings of CSCW 2006. ACM, New York, NY, 501-504.
Ellis, J.B., Danis, C., Halverson, C.A., and Kellogg, W.A.. Social Visualization in Software Development. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 24-27, 2006.
Erickson, T. Five Lenses: Towards a Toolkit for Interaction Design [as pdf] Theories and Practice in Interaction Design (ed. S. Bagnara, G. Crampton-Smith, and G. Salvendy.) Lawrence Erlbaum: April, 2006.
Erickson, T. From PIM to GIM: Personal Information Management in Group Contexts [pdf]. Communications of the ACM, January 2006, Vol. 49, No. 1, 74-75.
Erickson, T., Kellogg, W. A., Laff, M., Sussman, J. Wolf, T. V., Halverson, C. A., Edwards, D. A. A Persistent Chat Space for Work Groups: The Design, Evaluation and Deployment of Loops. The Proceedings of DIS 2006. New York: ACM Press, 2006.
Halverson, C.A., Ellis, J.B., Danis, C., and Kellogg, W.A.. Designing Task Visualizations to Support the Coordination of Work in Software Development. Proceedings of CSCW 2006 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, November 4-8, 2006.
Ivanov, A., Erickson, T., Cyr, D. Plot-polling: Collaborative Knowledge Visualization for Online Discussions. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Visualization. IEEE Press, 2006.
Kellogg, W. A., Erickson, T., Wolf, T. V., Levy, S., Christensen, J., Bennett, W.E. Leveraging Digital Backchannels to Enhance User Experience in Electronically Mediated Communication. The Proceedings of CSCW ’06. ACM Press. Honorable Mention – ACM SIGCHI Best of CSCW 2006 Award.
Weisz, J. D., Erickson, T., and Kellogg, W.A. Broadcast Synchronous Messaging: The Use of ICT. The Proceedings of CHI 2006. New York: ACM Press, 2006.
Wolf, T. V., Rode, J. A., Sussman, J., and Kellogg, W. A. 2006. Dispelling “design” as the black art of CHI. In Proceedings of CHI 2006. ACM, New York, NY, 521-530. Honorable Mention – ACM SIGCHI Best of CHI 2006 Award.
2005
Danis, C. and Lee, A. Evolution of Norms in a Newly Forming Group. Proceedings of Interact 2005: Tenth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Rome , Italy , September 2005.
Kellogg, W.A. and Erickson, T. “Supporting Appropriation Work with Social Translucence, Collective Sensemaking, and Social Scaffolding.” In Dittrich, Y., Dourish, P., Mørch, A., Pipek, V., Stevens, G., and Törpel, B. Special Issue on Supporting Appropriation Work, International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI) (2:2) pp. 84-97, 2005.
Erickson, T. Inhabited Models: Supporting Coherent Behavior in Online Systems. User Modeling 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3538, pp. 5-8. Springer, 2005.
2004
Erickson, T., Huang, W., Danis, C., and Kellogg, W. A. A Social Proxy for Distributed Tasks: Design and Evaluation of a Working Prototype. The Proceedings of CHI 2004. New York: ACM Press, 2004.
Erickson, T. and Kellogg, W.A. Social Proxy. The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. Berkshire Publishing Group, LLC, 2004.
Fogarty, J., Lai, J., and Christensen, J. 2004. Presence versus availability: the design and evaluation of a context-aware communication client. Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud. 61, 3 (Sep. 2004), 299-317.
Halverson, C. A., Erickson, T., and Ackerman, M. S. Behind the Help Desk: Evolution of a Knowledge Management System in a Large Organization. The Proceedings of CSCW 2004. New York: ACM Press, 2004.
Voida, A., Mynatt, E. D., Erickson, T. and Kellogg, W. A. Interviewing Over Instant Messaging. The Proceedings of CHI 2004. New York: ACM Press, 2004.
2003
Bellotti, V. Erickson, T. Cockto, G. and Korhonen, P. [Editors] Proceedings of the CHI 2003 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI Letters, 5(1). ACM Press: New York, ISBN: 1-58113-630-7, 2003.
Churchill, E. and Erickson, T. “Introduction to this Special Issue on Talking about Things in Mediated Conversations” In Human Computer Interaction, Vol. 18 Nos. 1&2, pp 1-12. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.
Churchill, E. and Erickson, T. [Editors] Special Issue on Talking about Things in Mediated Conversations.” Human Computer Interaction, Vol. 18 (1&2). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.
Erickson, T. “Designing Visualizations of Social Activity: Six Claims” The Proceedings of CHI 2003: Extended Abstracts, pp 846-847. New York: ACM Press, 2003.
Erickson, T. and Kellogg, W. A. “Knowledge Communities: Online Environments for Supporting Knowledge Management and its Social Context.” Sharing Expertise: Beyond Knowledge Management (eds. Ackerman, Mark, Volkmar Pipek, and Volker Wulf). Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2003, pp. 299-326. [Also available as a pdf.]
Halverson, C. A., Erickson, T. & Sussman, J. “What Counts as Success? Punctuated Patterns of Use in a Persistent Chat Environment.” The Proceedings of GROUP 2003. New York: ACM Press, 2003.
2002
Erickson, T. “Some Problems with the Notion of Context-Aware Computing” Communications of the ACM, , Vol. 45, No. 2 , pp 102-104. February, 2002. (Technical Opinion). [Also available as a pdf.]
Erickson, T., Halverson, C., Kellogg, W. A., Laff, M. and Wolf, T. “Social Translucence: Designing Social Infrastructures that Make Collective Activity Visible.” [pdf] Communications of the ACM (Special issue on Community, ed. J. Preece), Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 40-44, 2002.
Hudson, J., Christensen, J., Kellogg, W., and Erickson, T. “I’d Be Overwhelmed, But It’s Just One more Thing To Do: Availability and Interruption in Research Management.” Human Factors in Computing Systems: The Proceedings of CHI 2002 , ACM Press, 2002.
2001
Bellamy, R.K.E., Brezin, J., Kellogg, W.A., and Richards, J.T. (2001). Designing an e-grocery application for a Palm computer: Usability and interface issues. IEEE Communications, 8(4), special issue on pervasive computing.
Erickson, T. and Kellogg, W. “Social Translucence: Designing Systems that Support Social Processes.” In Human Computer Interaction in the New Millennium (ed. J.. Carroll). Addison-Wesley, 2001. [Book chapter; similar but not identical to 2000 TOCHI article.]
Erickson, T. and Laff, M. “The Design of the ‘Babble’ Timeline: A Social Proxy for Visualizing Group Activity over Time.” In Human Factors in Computing Systems: The Proceedings of CHI 2001. ACM Press, 2001.
Thomas, J., Kellogg, W.A. and Erickson, T. “The Knowledge Management Puzzle: Human and Social Factors in Knowledge Management.” The IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 40, No. 4, 2001.
2000
Boyarski, D. and Kellogg, W.A. (Editors.) (2000). Proceedings of ACM Designing Interacting Systems 2000 conference (DIS’2000). NY: ACM Press.
Erickson, T. “Lingua Francas for Design: Sacred Places and Pattern Languages.” In The Proceedings of DIS 2000 (Brooklyn, NY, August 17-19, 2000). New York: ACM Press, 2000, pp 357-368.
Erickson, T. & Kellogg, W. “Social Translucence: An Approach to Designing Systems that Mesh with Social Processes.” In Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. Vol. 7, No. 1, pp 59-83. New York: ACM Press, 2000.
Erickson, T. Making Sense of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC): Conversations as Genres, CMC Systems as Genre Ecologies. In the Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science. (ed. J. F. Nunamaker, Jr. R. H. Sprague, Jr.), January, 2000. IEEE Press.
Erickson, T. Towards a Pattern Language for Interaction Design.. In Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing Systems Design. (ed. P. Luff, J. Hindmarsh, C. Heath). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 252-261.
Kellogg, W.A., Lewis, C., and Polson, P. (Editors.) (2000). New agendas for human-computer interaction. Human-Computer Interaction, 15(2,3). Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Special millennial double issue on the future of HCI.
1999
Bradner, E., Kellogg, W, & Erickson, T. The Adoption and Use of Babble: A Field Study of Chat in the Workplace. The Proceedings of the European Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW ’99) conference.
Erickson, T. “Rhyme and Punishment: The Creation and Enforcement of Conventions in an On-Line Participatory Limerick Genre.” In the Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science. (ed. J. F. Nunamaker, Jr. R. H. Sprague, Jr.), January, 1999.
Erickson, T. “Persistent Conversation: Discourse as Document.” In the Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science. (ed. J. F. Nunamaker, Jr. R. H. Sprague, Jr.), January, 1999. Also republished as “Persistent Conversation: An Introduction” in the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Vol. 4, #4, June 1999.
Erickson, T. Smith, D. N., Kellogg, W. A., Laff, M. R., Richards, J. T., and Bradner, E. “Socially Translucent Systems: Social Proxies, Persistent Conversation, and the Design of ‘Babble.’” In Human Factors in Computing Systems: The Proceedings of CHI ’99. ACM Press, 1999.
Conferences
A list of some conferences that are relevant to our work can be found here.
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The Social Computing Group was founded in 1998. For prior publications by individuals, see their individual pages.
