Affect influences workplace collaboration and thereby impacts a workplace's productivity. Participants in face-to-face interactions have many cues to each other's affect, but work is increasingly carried out via computer-mediated channels that lack many of these cues. Current presence systems enable users to estimate the availability of other users, but not their affective states or communication preferences. This work demonstrates the feasibility of estimating affective state and communication preferences from a stream of presence states that are already being shared in a deployed presence system.

Modern office work practices increasingly breach traditional boundaries of time and place, increasing breakdowns workers encounter when coordinating interactions with colleagues. We conducted interviews with 12 workers and identified key problems introduced by these practices. To address these problems we developed myUnity, a fully functional platform enabling rich workplace awareness and coordination. myUnity is one of the first integrated platforms to span mobile and desktop environments, both in terms of access and sensing. It uses multiple sources to report user location, availability, tasks, and communication channels. A pilot field study of myUnity demonstrated the significant value of pervasive access to workplace awareness and communication facilities, as well as positive behavioral change in day-to-day communication practices for most users. We present resulting insights about the utility of awareness technology in flexible work environments.

Modern office work practices increasingly breach traditional boundaries of time and place, making it difficult to interact with colleagues. To address these problems, we developed myUnity, a software and sensor platform that enables rich workplace awareness and coordination. myUnity is an integrated platform that collects information from a set of independent sensors and external data aggregators to report user location, availability, tasks, and communication channels. myUnity's sensing architecture is component-based, allowing channels of awareness information to be added, updated, or removed at any time. Our current system includes a variety of sensor and data input, including camera-based activity classification, wireless location trilateration, and network activity monitoring. These and other input channels are combined and composited into a single, highlevel presence state. Early studies of a myUnity deployment have demonstrated that use of the platform allows quick access to core awareness information and show its utility in supporting communication and collaboration in the modern workplace.

One of the core challenges now facing smart rooms is supporting realistic, everyday activities. While much research has been done to push forward the frontiers of novel interaction techniques, we argue that technology geared toward widespread adoption requires a design approach that emphasizes straightforward configuration and control, as well as flexibility. We examined the work practices of users of a large, multi-purpose conference room, and designed DICE, a system to help them use the room's capabilities. We describe the design process, and report findings about the system's usability and about people's use of a multi-purpose conference room.

A Collaborage is a collaborative collage of physically represented information on a surface that is connected with electronic information, such as a physical In/Out board connected to a people-locator database. The physical surface (board) contains items that are tracked by camera and computer vision technology. Events on the board trigger electronic services. This paper motivates this concept, presents three different applications, describes the system architecture and component technologies, and discusses several design issues.

Our god is to pro~ide took to support wortig meetings On an electronic w'hitebom& c~ed TivoE This paper describes how we have inte~akd strucmd "dofi obj~~"into the whitebonrd environrnen~Domain objects represent the subject matter of meedngs and can be exchanged between Tivofi and group databases.Domain objects can be tailored to produce m=ting tools that ~e fiely tuned to mmting practims.We destibe the fac~ty for tiering and mana=tig domain objects and tie user intetiace techniques for blending these into tie whiteboard environrnen~We show examples of both spmtic and generic meeting took crafted horn domain objects, and we describe a long-term we study in m'%chthese took support an ongoing work process.

Our goal is to provide tools to support working meetings on an electronic whiteboard, called Tivoli.This paper describes how we have integrated structured domain objects, which represent the subject matter of meetings, into the freeform whiteboard environment.Domain objects can be tailored to produce meeting tools that are finely tuned to meeting practices.We describe the language for defining domain objects and show examples of meeting tools that have been built with the language.We show that the system can interpret the spatial relationships of domain objects on the whiteboard to encode the meanings of the spatial arrangements, and we describe the computational mechanisms.We discuss some of the design principles for tailoring gestures for domain objects.Finally, we enumerate the techniques we have used to integrate the structured objects into the freeform whiteboard environment.

Article "I'll get that off the audio": a case study of salvaging multimedia meeting records Share on Authors: Thomas P. Moran Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , Leysia Palen Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CAView Profile , Steve Harrison Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , Patrick Chiu Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , Don Kimber Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , Scott Minneman Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , William van Melle Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , Polle Zellweger Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile Authors Info & Claims CHI '97: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systemsMarch 1997 Pages 202–209https://doi.org/10.1145/258549.258704Online:27 March 1997Publication History 89citation868DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations89Total Downloads868Last 12 Months22Last 6 weeks0 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

This paper presents a scheme for extending an informal, penbased whiteboard system (the Tivoli application on-the Xerox LiveBoard) to provide interaction techniques that enable groups of users in informal meetings to easily organize and.rearrange material and to manage the space on the board.The techniques are based on the direct manipulation of boundaries and the implicit recognition of regions.The techniques include operations for shrinking and rearranging, structured borders that tessellate the board, freeform enclosures that can be split, fused, and linked, and collapsible annotations.Experience with using these techniques, the results of a user test, some design trade-offs and lessons, and future directions are discussed.

Article Evolutionary engagement in an ongoing collaborative work process: a case study Share on Authors: Thomas P. Moran Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , Patrick Chiu Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , Steve Harrison Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , Gordon Kurtenbach Alias Research, 110 Richmond, Street East, Toronto, Canada M5C 1P1 and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Alias Research, 110 Richmond, Street East, Toronto, Canada M5C 1P1 and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , Scott Minneman Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , William van Melle Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile Authors Info & Claims CSCW '96: Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative workNovember 1996 Pages 150–159https://doi.org/10.1145/240080.240243Published:16 November 1996 40citation654DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations40Total Downloads654Last 12 Months11Last 6 weeks1 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

Article Free Access Share on Implicit structure for pen-based systems within a freeform interaction paradigm Authors: Thomas P. Moran Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , Patrick Chiu Live Works, Inc., A Xerox Company, 2040 Fortune Drive, San Jose, CA and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Live Works, Inc., A Xerox Company, 2040 Fortune Drive, San Jose, CA and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , William van Melle Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , Gordon Kurtenbach Alias Research Inc., 110 Richmond Street East, Toronto, Canada M5C 1P1 and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Alias Research Inc., 110 Richmond Street East, Toronto, Canada M5C 1P1 and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile Authors Info & Claims CHI '95: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMay 1995 Pages 487–494https://doi.org/10.1145/223904.223970Published:01 May 1995Publication History 51citation715DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations51Total Downloads715Last 12 Months44Last 6 weeks7 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteView all FormatsPDF

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