As computers are increasingly used to mediate social interaction, tools are needed not only
to support direct communication, but also to create a richer social environment for the …

Communication is fundamental to all group work, whether cooperative or competitive. A
thorough understanding of the communication flows among collaborators is necessary for …

Conference management is a critical component of a collaborative engineering effort. This
paper describes, CAIRO (Collaborative Agent Interaction and synchROnization system), a …

A well designed collaborative intervention (CI) can significantly improve group efficiency and
effectiveness for many group processes. Appropriate guidelines are needed to help …

Computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) involves the concurrent sharing of
application packages by various geographically distributed users, the sharing of common …

In order to satisfy goals for developing collaboration software, a powerful yet simple visual
language has been developed for use by end users in describing plans for work activities …

While full computer understanding of dynamic visual scenes containing several people may
be currently unattainable, we propose a computationally efficient approach to determine …

Collaboration and collaboration support are often a mixed blessing. While performing tasks
collaboratively is useful to gain commitment, shared understanding and to benefit from the …

Describes an attempt at specifying a generic and reusable set of services for computer-
supported collaboration among teams engaged in any collaborative process within a …

Collaboration has traditionally occurred through verbal and visual communication. In recent
years, technical innovation has provided a new context for collective efforts that are …