Social Translucence: An Approach to Designing Systems that Support Social Processes

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-83

  Erickson, Thomas ^a   Kellogg, Wendy A ^a  

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

Author keywords

CMC; CMI; computer mediated communication; CSCW; Design; Human Factors; social computing; social navigation; social visualization; visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991061352     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/344949.345004     Document Type: Article

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