Groupware and social dynamics: eight challenges for developers
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Empirical Study on Collaborative Writing: What Do Co-authors Do, Use, and Like?
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
The multiple views of inter-organizational authoring
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Asynchronous collaborative writing through annotations
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Computer
Share and share alike: exploring the user interface affordances of file sharing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
User experiences with sharing and access control
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CVS integration with notification and chat: lightweight software team collaboration
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Informed opportunism as strategy: supporting coordination in distributed collaborative writing
ECSCW'93 Proceedings of the third conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
NSDI'06 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 3
Suitable notification intensity: the dynamic awareness system
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
A diary study of mobile information needs
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
It's on my other computer!: computing with multiple devices
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
SafeStore: a durable and practical storage system
ATC'07 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference on Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference
From writing and analysis to the repository: taking the scholars' perspective on scholarly archiving
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
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Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology
Yours, mine and (not) ours: social influences on group information repositories
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Perspective: semantic data management for the home
FAST '09 Proccedings of the 7th conference on File and storage technologies
Cimbiosys: a platform for content-based partial replication
NSDI'09 Proceedings of the 6th USENIX symposium on Networked systems design and implementation
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mobile taskflow in context: a screenshot study of smartphone usage
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A file-type sensitive, auto-versioning file system
Proceedings of the 10th ACM symposium on Document engineering
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SOSP '11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
That syncing feeling: early user experiences with the cloud
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference
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In this paper, we describe the design and use of Cimetric, a file synchronization application that supports scholarly collaboration. The system design incorporates results of earlier studies that suggest replicating content on a user's personal devices may have different characteristics than replicating content to share it with collaborators. To realize this distinction, Cimetric performs bi-level synchronization: it synchronizes local copies of a versioned repository among collaborators' computers, while it separately synchronizes private working files between each user's personal devices. Through a year's worth of in-house use of Cimetric in a variety of configurations, we were able to investigate key file synchronization issues, including the role of cloud storage given the ability to sync between peers; the strengths and weaknesses of a bi-level design; and which aspects of the synchronization process to reveal to users.