It has been a whole year since I graduated in Toronto. My, how time has flown! In an overdue attempt at a victory lap, I tried to publish some of my research at the VLHCC 2010 conference. Unfortunately, I didn't make the cut. It was worth a shot though and I'm glad I made the attempt.
In the spirit of openness, I've posted the paper that I submitted to the VLHCC program committee. It's my thesis boiled down to an 8-page nugget entitled Supporting Collaboration in Software Development with Discrete Event Streams.
The reviewers were looking for more of a splash than I was able to provide, which is totally fair. Instead of a study examining how users work with an older (yet pervasive) idea like event-based awareness, the reviewers were clearly on the lookout for novel technology. All the same, I think there are some valuable findings in this work.
New event-based collaboration tools like Google Wave, Salesforce Chatter, and Yammer have some neat ideas, but the unfortunate reality is that there is scant empirical understanding of how people use these types of tools to collaborate in a shared workspace. It seems that the new wave of tools are designed on the backs of social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter, not user research. I've tried to address some of the void in my paper and I hope it might generate some ideas in the minds of others for future work.
I'm always open to chat about ideas in this area, so feel free to get in touch!
2 Comments
1 Neil
Posted June 9, 2010 at 5:56 amPermalink
Jeremy, you should consider posting this on ArXiv.org. That way it will be more accessible and longer-lived (should you not renew your domain for example).
I wonder if another venue would be suitable. Maybe an ICSE workshop?
2 Jeremy Handcock
Posted June 10, 2010 at 5:55 pmPermalink
Hi Neil, thanks for the tip on ArXiv.org. Yeah, an ICSE workshop might be a possibility. I'll watch to see what comes up for 2011.