After the first keynote the paper program started. Just some thoughts on these:
- “What Did I Miss? – Visualizing the Past through Video Traces” – A work from Saul Greenbergs group on awareness in video media spaces – They presented the Timeline System which tries to provide an overview of a video stream while at the same time addressing privacy issues. See videos of Saul Greenbergs group.
- “Social bookmarking and exploratory search”, David R. Millen (IBM): A very nice report from the Dogear project at IBM – an intranet social bookmarking service. They presented a lot of material (both numbers and quotes) from the internal usage of Dogear. An interesting information was also the list of upcoming papers on Dogear – One which seems to be especially interesting is on “Expertise Search” (using social bookmarking) by Shami, Ehrlich and Millen – Sadly, there was no reference to where this paper will show up – sometimes in 2008. Another interesting idea briefly mentioned in the discussion: Use Dogear to generate personal tag clouds to be printed on the name badges for conferences.
- “Instrumental action: the timely exchange of implements during surgical operations”, Marcus Sanchez Svensson: A piece of work looking at how coordination around objects happens in the operating theatre. Nice examples and some conceptual reflections, but little new insights (that inform design) – as it was mentioned during discussion …
- “Designing Family Photo Displays”, A. Taylor et al.: Thinking about the display of photos, what do they do, how do they achieve their “goal” (end up doing certain sorts of things); some nice ideas (informed by ethnographic research) on how to design family photo display.
- “The Awareness Network: Should I display my actions to whom? And, whose actions should I monitor?”, C. de Souza: Work about filtering incoming and outgoing awareness events – which they call “awareness network” – the sum of incoming and outgoing links. The basis of the work are observations of two software development teams – analyzed using grounded theory techniques – which more or less shows some dependencies in the teams (depending on the system developed – modular vs. non-modular) – which affected the awareness network (no big surprise …).