We conducted four annual comprehensive surveys of social networking at Microsoft
between 2008 and 2011. We are interested in how employees use these tools and whether …

Event scheduling is a group decision-making process in which social dynamics influence
people's choices and the overall outcome. As a result, scheduling is not simply a matter of …

Independence is key to a successful transition to adulthood for individuals with autism.
Social support is a crucial factor for achieving adaptive self-help life skills. In this paper we …

This paper focuses on the fifth year of a cross-sectional trend study of enterprise social
networking. Several stable patterns are evident--some activities have plateaued, others …

Existing enterprise calendaring systems have suffered from problems like rigidity, lack of
transparency, and poor integration with social networks. We present the system design and …

Social networks, especially Facebook, currently as the largest one, have made the
organization of events apparently simpler. Facebook offers the event service, which has …

Participation is the cornerstone of any community. Promoting, understanding and properly
managing it allows not only keeping the community sustainable, but also providing …

In this paper, we propose to improve time management in the enterprise by providing users
interactive visualizations of how they are spending their time. Through an interview study (n …

The emergence of the Enterprise 2.0 technologies indicates that they can provide value to
different types of users and potentially different types of value. Many published research …

We propose an analytic approach–Socially Implicated Work Objects (SIWOs)–to describe
and unify diverse shared virtual objects and work practices in organizations. SIWOs are …