A social proxy for distributed tasks: Design and evaluation of a working prototype

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 559-566

  Erickson, Thomas ^a   Huang, Wei ^a,b   Danis, Catalina ^a   Kellogg, Wendy A ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; CSCW; Design; Process awareness; Social computing; Social proxy; Task support; Visualization; Workflow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DESIGN; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; USER INTERFACES;

AWARENESS; PROCESS AWARENESS; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL PROXY; TASK SUPPORT; WORKFLOW;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 4544365756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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