Mobile robotic telepresence (MRP) systems incorporate video conferencing equipment onto
mobile robot devices which can be steered from remote locations. These systems, which are …

Quantified analyses of plant macrofossil remains have been made from three profiles of peat
from raised bogs spanning a distance of 425km from western Ireland to northern England …

Organizations' pursuit of increased workplace collaboration has led managers to transform
traditional office spaces into 'open', transparency-enhancing architectures with fewer walls …

Purpose Previous research assumes that informal communication may be highly relevant for
organizations, but little is known about its actual relevance for employees or its functions and …

Micro-blogs, a relatively new phenomenon, provide a new communication channel for
people to broadcast information that they likely would not share otherwise using existing …

Email is one of the most successful computer applications yet devised. Our empirical data
show however, that although email was originally designed as a communications …

We discuss findings from an ethnographic study of instant messaging (IM) in the workplace
and its implications for media theory. We describe how instant messaging supports a variety …

Upon publication almost 15 years ago, the first edition almost instantly became a trusted
reference, setting the stage for the coming decade, in which the explosion in research and …

Casual conversation, where people engage in social talk or phatic communion (Coupland et
al., 1992)(ie, non-task oriented talk) is acknowledged as important in facilitating …

This chapter analyzes why computers and telecommunications have not created
computermediated work environments for collaboration that are as successful as physically …