Chat spaces

Authors:
Werner Geyer;Andrew J. Witt;Eric Wilcox;Michael Muller;Bernard Kerr;Beth Brownholtz;David R. Millen
Affiliations:
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Cambridge, MA;Harvard Design School, Cambridge, MA;IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Cambridge, MA;IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Cambridge, MA;IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Cambridge, MA;IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Cambridge, MA;IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Cambridge, MA
Venue:
DIS '04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Chat Spaces are rich persistent chats that provide light-weight shared workspaces for small to medium-scale group activities. Chat Spaces can accommodate brief, informal interactions (similar to Instant Messaging), and can also support longer-term complex threaded conversations including large numbers of people and shared resources. Our design maps a hierarchical thread representation onto a time-ordered two-column user interface. This mapping allows a user to follow the global dynamics of the entire thread in the chronological column on the left while being able to participate in a selected topical branch in a second column on the right. We also present a dynamic thread map that provides an overview of the entire conversation and supports quick navigation of topical branches in the thread.