Handheld CSCW Workshop CSCW Conference 1998

Workshop Handheld CSCW

   TecO University of Karlsruhe
  James A. Landay
User interfaces have been traditionally designed to facilitate structured data input rather than natural human communication, which consists of the imprecise modes of speaking, writing, gesturing, and sketching. The primary tenet of our work in informal user interfaces is to bend computers to people's mode of interaction, not the other way around. One such domain that we have investigated is user interface design itself. Another area we are investigating is ink-based, collaborative note taking. We are performing this work on a variety of pen-based devices, including PDAs. We are interested in seeing how other group's work in the HCSCW area can improve our work, both in terms of both our interaction techniques and evaluation methodologies.
 
e-mail: landay@cs.berkeley.edu
Homepage: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~landay
  Richard C. Davis
I received my Bachelor's and Master's degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1995, after which I worked on VLSI CAD tools at Intel Corporation for one year. In 1996 I entered the University of California at Berkeley and began working with James Landay. With him and with Bill Schilit and Morgan Price of FX Palo Alto Laboratory, I developed NotePals, a system for sharing handwritten notes taken on a 3Com PalmPilot. I am currently a "Software Architect" at Virtual Ink Corporation in Boston, MA, a new company that develops pen-based user interface hardware and software for work groups. My research focuses on pen-based, informal user interfaces that help users express their ideas to themselves and to their colleagues. I believe that handheld devices are particularly convenient for storing personal information that will be shared with colleagues.
 
e-mail: rcdavis@virtual-ink.com
  David R. McGee

 
e-mail: dmcgee@cse.ogi.edu
  Bill Schilit
Bill Schilit works at FX Palo Alto Laboratory where he builds information appliances. He has recently developed the XLibris active reading machine (see the web site http://www.fxpal.xerox.com/xlibris). Previously, Bill was a Member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs and led the TeleWeb project exploring weakly-connected web access for mobile users. Bill has a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University and wrote his thesis at Xerox PARC while working on Ubiquitous Computing initiative.
 
e-mail: schilit@pal.xerox.com
Homepage: http://www.fxpal.xerox.com/people/schilit/
  Kori Inkpen
I am a new Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. I graduated from the University of British Columbia in September 1997 and spent one year at the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Washington. My research interests involve computer support for collaboration, particularly with respect to children's use of computers in educational environments. I am interested in exploring new ways to develop technology to more effectively support the needs and interactions of children in a classroom setting.
My particular interest in Handheld CSCW stems from my observations of children's interactions with computers. Children's interactions with computer technology tend to be disjoint from the rest of their lives. In order to more effectivly enhace children's learning through technology, it is important that it becomes a part of their daily lives: on the schoolground at recess; in their bedrooms after school; and playing in their friend's treehouse. Learning isn't confined to the hourse between 9am and 3pm.
 
e-mail: inkpen@cs.sfu.ca
Homepage: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~inkpen
  Brad Myers
We are exploring how Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), such as the 3Com PalmPilot or a device running the Windows CE operating system, can be used when they are communicating with a "regular" personal computer (PC), with other PDAs, and with computerized devices such as telephones, radios, microwave ovens and factory equipment. We have created a variety of software applications to investigate these issues, including the RemoteCommander which allows multiple people using their PDA to take turns controlling the PC's mouse and keyboard.
 
e-mail: Brad Myers@amulet1.amulet.cs.cmu.edu
Homepage: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/
  Fredrik Ljungberg
I have a Ph.D. in Informatics from Gothenburg University, Sweden. In July 1997, I joined the Viktoria Institute, a newly established IT research institute owned by the two universities of Gothenburg and some 25 companies, among them Volvo and Ericsson. My main task at Viktoria has been to establish a research group on the topic of Mobile Informatics, which is a field concerned with exploring new ways of using IT in mobile settings. During the last six months I have also worked part time at the Norwegian Computing Centre in Oslo. The objective of the research in which I?m involved is to conduct empirical studies, elicit design implications and design innovative and new prototype systems. I?m interested in the new ideas of how IT could be used, in particular in mobile work situations where people are engaged in much cooperation.
 
e-mail: fredrik@informatics.gu.se
  Lars Erik Holmquist
  My interest is originally in human-computer interaction in general rather than CSCW in particular. Currently one of the main uses for computers is for communication, which has made me realize that most of the really interesting new computer applications will have an element of CSCW in them.
At the Viktoria Institute we have several projects which relate to handheld devices and CSCW. One is the Hummingbirds that we have developed as part of the Inter-Personal Awareness Devices (IPAD) project, and I will describe them at the workshop. Another project has been our work on finding effective ways to display large amounts of data on small screens ("The Zoom Browser") where we have just designed a focus+context-based web-browser for Palm Pilots. We are also starting work on Shared Personal Information Spaces, an extension of the IPAD concept.
 
e-mail: leh@viktoria.informatics.gu.se
  Henrik Fagrell
Henrik Fagrell is a PhD candidate with special interest in mobile CSCW and its relation to organisational memory.
 
e-mail: fagrell@informatics.gu.se
Homepage: http://www.informatics.gu.se/~fagrell/
  Gerd Kortuem
I'm a Ph.D. candidate at the Computer and Information Science Department, University of Oregon, where I'm working on various topics related to wearable computing. Before entering the Ph.D program, I was working at the Advanced Technology Group at Apple Computer, Cupertino, on mobile and nomadic systems. My current research interests include mobile and wearable computing, collaborative systems, mobile agent systems, and self-adapting distributed systems. I'm currently developing a collaborative wearable system which is designed to support technicians in their task of maintaining a campus-wide building and network infrastructure. This system provides audio/video conferencing capabilities over a wireless network link and incorporates advanced interaction techniques like remote pointing and remote sensing.
 
e-mail: kortuem@cs.uoregon.edu
Homepage: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/wearables/
  Saul Greenberg
Saul Greenberg, a professor in the Department of Computer Science, is an active researcher in Human Computer Interaction. He specializes in computer supported cooperative work, where he investigates how people work together, how the computer and related technologies (groupware) affect group behaviour, and how software can be designed to support and augment group work. He also works in information visualization and manipulation techniques for large data spaces, which allows both individuals and groups to understand and manipulate their information space.
 
e-mail: saul@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Homepage: http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~saul/
  Steinar Kristoffersen

 
e-mail: Steinar.Kristoffersen@nr.no
  David Martin
I am interested in tying handheld devices to large screen interactive public displays. Our development focus is on synchronous and asynchronous interaction, and local and remote. I am also interested in private work spaces and public shared work areas.
 
e-mail: DaveMartin@smarttech.com
Homepage: http://www.smarttech.com/
  Mark Day
My primary interest is in distributed systems for collaboration, including protocol design, performance, usability, and coordination theory. My current focus is on handheld devices for collaboration and protocols for sharing presence information.In addition to my research, I am Lotus's principal representative to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
My previous work includes notification servers and NSTP (published in the last CSCW conference) and Caucus, our application to support program committees. Caucus was used for CSCW 98's program committee and is currently in commercial use. At MIT, I co-designed the Thor distributed object system, the object-oriented programming language Theta, and the distributed programming language Argus.
 
e-mail: Mark Day/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com
  Allan Mang Krebs
Allan Meng Krebs has been doing research in the area of CSCW used for distance education since 1995. The primary interest is in the area of synchronous cooperation. The interest in Handheld CSCW is relatively new and goes mostly towards combining more traditional CSCW setups with Handheld CSCW.
 
e-mail: amk@delta.dk
Homepage: http://www.delta.dk/
  Joseph Reynolds
I'v spent the past two years actively studying the requirements and prototyping systems to enable seperated groups to cooperatively perform a series of tasks. My primary interest is the systems design and architecture, with a close second interest being human factors of interaction under difficult conditions. An objective was to allow seperate groups to establish a common context for tasks even if lacking sensory data. Another area of activity was authentication of group members and their role in the tasks.
 
e-mail: joer@galileo.tracor.com
  Keith Cheverst
For the last six years I have been a research assitant with the distributed multimedia research group based at Lancaster University . During this time I have been extensively involved in the MOST project (Mobile Open Systems Technologies for the utilities industries) which produced arguably the first adaptive mobile groupware application. I have also spent three years examing the type of support services that are required by developers of mobile groupware and the implications for user interface design when supporting collaboration over unreliable mobile communications. The bulk of this work has formed my thesis which descibes the design and implementation of a flexible ODP based group service for supporting the development of mobile groupware.
 
e-mail: kc@comp.lancs.ac.uk
  Elaine Hyder
I am working on my PhD at GSIA, Carnegie Mellon University, in information systems. My thesis looks at individual and group conflict developing technical standards. My current and future research interests include groups, more specifically conflict resolution and computer supported cooperative work. I came by my interest in handhelds through an intersection of my responsibilities in my new position at HCII at Carnegie Mellon University and my ongoing interest in CSCW.
 
e-mail: ehyder@cs.cmu.edu
  Steve Rohall
Please see the Homepage for a short bio. As for handheld CSCW in particular, I am personally very interested in the use of devices that are always with someone for synchronous collaboration. The challenges to this are many including limited input and display capabilities and limited network connectivity and bandwidth. In fact, the use of handheld devices for asynchronous collaboration is still an area that can benefit from further study (e.g., Lotus Notes is great for providing communication capabilities to disconnected and mobile users, but how does one provide a Notes-like experience on a device with very limited capabilities?).
 
e-mail: steven_rohall@lotus.com
Homepage: Homepage at Lotus Research
  Colleen Page
Colleen Phillips Page earned a Master of Science degree in Human Factors from the University of Southern California in 1994. For her master's thesis she conducted research on concurrent and retrospective verbal protocols in usability testing. She joined the Microsoft Usability Group in 1993 and is currently a member of the usability team in the Consumer Appliances Group at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. This division has developed the Windows CE platform and user interfaces for several mobile, handheld, and/or wearable devices that are powered by Windows CE. The usability team is currently rolling out a mobile professionals fieldstudy to observe people as they use mobile devices to communicate, access data, and organize their work and personal lives. Colleen's interest in the HCSCW workshop is focussed on a shift from a single handheld device/single user paradigm to a model that supports mobile connectivity and collaboration.
 
e-mail: colleenp@microsoft.com
  Olivier Liechti
Originally from Switzerland, I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Hiroshima University, Japan. In my research, I am looking at the notion of social awareness on the WWW. In other words, at the problem of making the activity occurring on the WWW more tangible to people (both information publishers and information consumers). Handheld devices are particularly interesting in these settings, because they provide a way for people to be continuously connected to the WWW. They thus make it possible to monitor Web activity in a smooth way, not only when people sit in the front of a workstation. At the workshop, I will present the CyberWindow prototype, which makes it possible to "hear" visitors on one's Web site.
 
e-mail: olivier@isl.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Homepage: http://www.isl.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~olivier/
  Eva-Lotta Sallnäs
My background is in Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction. I received my degree of Bachelor of Social Science in Behavioural Research at Stockholm University in 1996. I worked at Telia Research AB during 1996-1998. Currently I am a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School for Human-Machine Interaction at the Royal Institute of Technology. In my research I am looking at how multimodal interfaces support different activities in electronic meetings due to the specific qualities of each modality. Moreover how different modalities affect communication and collaboration processes between people in workgroups. I have worked with research and development in the area of computer supported cooperative work mediated by handheld mobile multimodal systems in the telecom industry.
 
e-mail: evalotta@nada.kth.se
Homepage: http://www.nada.kth.se/~evalotta/
  Albrecht Schmidt
Currently I am working as Research Assistant at the Telecooperation Office (Teco), University of Karlsruhe in Germany towards a PhD in computer Science. My main research interests are Ubiquitous and Handheld Computing, Handheld CSCW, and Context-Aware Computing. In the European Project TEA (Technology for Enabling Awareness http://www.omega.it/tea/) I am investigating the recognition of contexts.
 
e-mail: albrecht@teco.uni-karlsruhe.de
Homepage: http://www.teco.edu/~albrecht/.
  Hans-Werner Gellersen
I obtained a PhD from Karlsruhe in 1996, and since have been leading TecO, a small research group working on innovative applications in distributed systems, currently focused on web engineering, and handheld and ubiquitous computing. I have proposed this workshop because I am excited about the opportunities handhelds and other small assistive computing devices begin to hold for collaboration and social interaction. What I find particularly interesting is that handheld/wearable-based CSCW (in contrast to desktop-based CSCW) has the potential to exploit the location of use and more generally the usage environment, both as collaboration context and as collaboration mediator.
 
e-mail: hwg@teco.uni-karlsruhe.de
Homepage: http://www.teco.edu/~hwg/.