Patterns of contact and communication in scientific research collaborations
Intellectual teamwork
Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Re-place-ing space: the roles of place and space in collaborative systems
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Interaction and outeraction: instant messaging in action
CSCW '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
A Descriptive Framework of Workspace Awareness for Real-Time Groupware
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Designing and deploying an information awareness interface
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Locales Framework: Understanding and Designing for Wicked Problems
Locales Framework: Understanding and Designing for Wicked Problems
Supporting social worlds with the community bar
GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Share and share alike: exploring the user interface affordances of file sharing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Re-space-ing place: "place" and "space" ten years on
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
A field study of community bar: (mis)-matches between theory and practice
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time)
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Artifact awareness through screen sharing for distributed groups
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Clui: a platform for handles to rich objects
Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
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Lightweight group meetings are opportunistic, ad-hoc, or lightly planned gatherings characterized by the informal nature of their members and their tasks. Critically, they must be very easy to set up and maintain over time. We contribute the design of Come Together, a system that supports lightweight, persistent meetings between distance-separated people. Its design is theoretically motivated by the Locales Framework, with features derived from the best of Instant Messengers and the Community Bar. Its main motivation is that any action must be simple and fast to do if it is to support lightweight group meetings. In particular, Come Together represents both people and their things as media items, which - unlike prior systems - can be quickly brought together to form an ad hoc place. Places, which are persistent, can be presented in a variety of forms (e.g., as a stand-alone window, or as an element in a sidebar), with interaction mechanisms that let a person quickly adjust the degree of awareness he or she wishes to maintain of the place and its contents. Somewhat akin to buddy lists, a console collects all people, artifacts, and places, where users can select them to rapidly compose meeting places.