Awareness Agents: A Distributed System for Group Awareness Alice Oh (2009)
Gary Look, Tyler Horton, Max Van Kleek
We are investigating the use of distributed knowledge to gather group awareness information. In a typical workgroup, an individual’s presence information is known in bits and pieces by several...
Max Van Kleek, Paul André, Daniel A. Smith, Max L. Wilson, Michael Bernstein, David Karger, ...
Over the past two years, social networking sites have fostered a new kind of data publication: personal feeds about schedule, location, music playing, activity and so on. While these feeds have been...
Personal Information Management, Personal Information Retrieval? (2008)
Michael Bernstein, Max Van Kleek, David R. Karger
Traditional information retrieval has focused on the task of finding information or documents in a largely unknown space such as the Web or a library collection. In this paper we propose that the...
Computation for the Corridor: Ubiquitous Computing Systems for Social Spaces (2008)
Max Van Kleek, Paul Robertson, Howard Shrobe, Larry Rudolph
Abstract. This position paper motivates the need for ubiquitous computing systems to act as social mediators within organizations, and proposes that such systems be situated in the various shared...
Recent workplace studies have indicated that informal (2008)
SKINNI, the Smart Kiosk Information Navigation and Note-posting Interface, is an application designed for touchscreen information kiosks installed in public spaces of a workplace. SKINNI provides...
A framework for ubiquitously capturing users ’ work and life patterns (2008)
The field of user modeling is concerned with the construction of computational models that describe various aspects of people’s lives. While user modeling has witnessed its greatest successes in...
Max Van Kleek, Michael Bernstein, Paul André, Mikko Perttunen, David Karger
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Supporting Informal Computer-Human Collaboration: the K22 Kiosk Platform (2007)
Spontaneous, informal gatherings among colleagues often spur greater exchanges of ideas than formal meetings. The K22 project aims to support these spontaneous collaborative interactions by embedding...
GUI— Phooey! : The Case for Text Input (2007)
Max Van Kleek, Michael Bernstein, David R. Karger
Information cannot be found if it is not recorded. Existing rich graphical application approaches interfere with user input in many ways, forcing complex interactions to enter simple information,...
A practical activity capture framework for personal, lifetime user modeling (2007)
Max Van Kleek, Howard E. Shrobe
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of capturing rich, longterm personal activity logs of users ’ interactions with their workstations, for the purpose of deriving predictive, personal user...
Management of Personal Information Scraps (2007)
Michael Bernstein, David Karger, Max Van Kleek
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TO: Department Graduate Committee (2007)
Max Van Kleek, From Dr, Howard E. Shrobe
This proposal describes an investigation into ways by which software can proactively support a user’s task and time management practices within their desktop environments. The proposed approach...
Max Van Kleek, Kai Kunze, Kurt Partridge, James “bo Begole
Abstract. This paper describes the Obje Perception Framework (OPF), a distributed software architecture for context sensing and inference in ubiquitous computing environments. OPF provides...
Nathan Eagle, Max Van Kleek, Y Pentl, Howard E. Shrobe
We present a system for fostering informal interactions among previously unacquainted people through the use of mobile phones and public kiosk displays in the workplace. Our system assesses the...
k:info: An architecture for smart billboards for informal public spaces (2003)
High-traffic public spaces in the workplace are rich breeding grounds for informal collaborations among knowledge workers; yet, very little technology currently inhabits these spaces today. k:info is...
Max Van Kleek, Howard E. Shrobe, Max Van Kleek
The Ki/o Kiosk Project is a research effort to explore the potential applications for embedding computation in informal public spaces, such as hallways, building lobbies, and break areas. By...
Evaluating look-to-talk: A gaze-aware interface in a collaborative environment (2002)
Alice Oh, Harold Fox, Max Van Kleek, Aaron Adler, Krzysztof Gajos, Trevor Darrell
We present “look-to-talk”, a gaze-aware interface for directing a spoken utterance to a software agent in a multiuser collaborative environment. Through a prototype and a Wizard-of-Oz (WOz)...
Evaluating look-to-talk: A gaze-aware interface in a collaborative environment (2002)
Alice Oh, Harold Fox, Max Van Kleek, Aaron Adler, Krzysztof Gajos, Trevor Darrell
We present "look-to-talk", a gaze-aware interface for directing a spoken utterance to a software agent in a multiuser collaborative environment. Through a prototype and a...
Evaluating look-to-talk: A gaze-aware interface in a collaborative environment (2002)
Alice Oh, Harold Fox, Max Van Kleek, Aaron Adler, Krzysztof Gajos, Trevor Darrell
We present “look-to-talk”, a gaze-aware interface for directing a spoken utterance to a software agent in a multiuser collaborative environment. Through a prototype and a Wizard-of-Oz (WOz)...
Evaluating look-to-talk: A gaze-aware interface in a collaborative environment (2002)
Alice Oh, Harold Fox, Max Van Kleek, Aaron Adler, Krzysztof Gajos, Trevor Darrell
We present “look-to-talk”, a gaze-aware interface for directing a spoken utterance to a software agent in a multiuser collaborative environment. Through a prototype and a Wizard-of-Oz (WOz)...
Connexus to awarenex: extending awareness to mobile users (2001)
John C. Tang, Nicole Yankelovich, James “bo Begole, Max Van Kleek, Francis Li, Janak Bhalodia
We explored the use of awareness information to facilitate communication by developing a series of prototypes. The ConNexus prototype integrates awareness information, instant messaging, and other...