Social and Temporal Structures in Everyday Collaboration

June 7, 2004
Danyel Fisher | UC Irvine

Everyday work frequently involves coordinating and collaborating with others, but the structure of collaboration is largely invisible to conventional desktop applications. I am exploring ways to support everyday collaboration by allowing applications access to the social, organizational, and temporal settings within which work is conducted. In this talk, I will present two generations of systems supporting everyday collaboration, focusing on ways to recover and represent the temporal and social structures of online activity.

Speaker Details

Danyel Fisher is a PhD candidate in the School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His research centers on computer-supported collaboration and communication; he uses tools and methodologies from social network analysis and information visualization, among others.