Visual analytics combines automated data analysis and human intelligence through
visualisation techniques to address the complexity of current real-world problems. This …

This encyclopedia, edited by the deputy director of the National Science Foundation's
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, compiles 186 articles on the maturing field of …

We discuss findings from observation, interviews, and textual analysis of instant messaging
use in a university research lab setting. We propose a method for characterizing the tensions …

Digital systems are resha** how we engage with music as a sounding dimension of
cultural life that is capable of being transformed into a commodity. At the same time, as we …

This paper reports to what extent concepts of discourse organisation such as floor,
turntaking and sequentiality can be used for the description of how communicative agents …

The study examines effects of media synchronicity in a group problem-solving task. The
media characteristics of parallelism, immediacy of feedback, and reprocessability are varied …

Recent advances in the fields of knowledge representation, reasoning and human-computer
interaction have paved the way for a novel approach to treating and handling context. The …

Turn-taking provides a basis for comparing interactions in different communication
environments, and this paper demonstrates that readily observable features of turns can be …

Contact management is an important part of everyday work. People exchange business
cards to try to enter each other's contact lists. Local businesses provide refrigerator magnets …

End-to-end evaluations of conversational dialogue systems with naive users are currently
uncovering severe usability problems that result in low task completion rates. Preliminary …