Software engineering projects are inherently cooperative, requiring many software
engineers to coordinate their efforts to produce a large software system. Integral to this effort …

Groups of users often have shared information needs--for example, business colleagues
need to conduct research relating to joint projects and students must work together on group …

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

Solving complex problems often requires experience and perspectives of various, often
heterogeneous experts. Shared understanding of the task is an important determinant for the …

We introduce C-Slate, a new vision-based system, which utilizes stereo cameras above a
commercially available tablet technology to support remote collaboration. The horizontally …

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

Team formation is a challenging problem in many large organizations in which it is entirely
possible for two individuals to work on similar projects without realizing it. By applying social …

How actively do users chat, with whom, about what, and how coherently, when they are
shooting enemies and dodging bullets in a fast-paced virtual gaming environment? This …

Empirical research on collaborative software development practices indicates that technical
and social aspects of software development are often intertwined. The processes followed …

In this paper, we present a new web-based visual analytics system, VizCept, which is
designed to support fluid, collaborative analysis of large textual intelligence datasets. The …