A visual calendar for scheduling group meetings
CSCW '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Groupware and social dynamics: eight challenges for developers
Communications of the ACM
Augmenting shared personal calendars
Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Discretionary adoption of group support software: lessons from calendar applications
Implementing collaboration technologies in industry
Coordinate: probabilistic forecasting of presence and availability
UAI'02 Proceedings of the Eighteenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
groupTime: preference based group scheduling
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Traditional group scheduling applications often treat users’ availability as binary: free or busy. This is an unrealistic representation because not all times are equally free or busy. The inflexibility makes it difficult to find times with which everyone is truly satisfied. We present an online group scheduling approach by which users indicate four-tier preferences for meeting times on a calendar, which dynamically adjusts to provide instant feedback and suggests optimal meeting times for all participants. Our prototype is geared toward college students and the scheduling is done through a democratic and open negotiation process where everyone’s preference is heard. Students who evaluated the prototype thought that the scheduling process was more efficient than the widely-used e-mail scheduling among college students, which is largely based on binary availability.