Paul Dourish

A Handle on What’s Going On: Combining Tangible Interfaces and Ambient Displays for Collaborative Groups (2009)

Johanna Brewer, A Williams, Paul Dourish

While tangible interfaces open up new possibilities for input and interaction, they are also interesting because of the ways in which they occupy the physical world just as we do. We have been...

Pervasive computing and environmental sustainability : two conference workshops (2009)

Foth, Marcus, Paulos, Eric, Satchell, Christine, Dourish, Paul

Two workshops held at Pervasive 2008 and UbiComp 2008 brought together people who work on pervasive computing and HCI to tackle ecological concerns and use their expertise, skills, and insights to...

Pervasive computing and environmental sustainability : two conference workshops (2009)

Foth, Marcus, Paulos, Eric, Satchell, Christine, Dourish, Paul

Two workshops held at Pervasive 2008 and UbiComp 2008 brought together people who work on pervasive computing and HCI to tackle ecological concerns and use their expertise, skills, and insights to...

Pervasive computing and environmental sustainability : two conference workshops (2009)

Foth, Marcus, Paulos, Eric, Satchell, Christine, Dourish, Paul

Two workshops held at Pervasive 2008 and UbiComp 2008 brought together people who work on pervasive computing and HCI to tackle ecological concerns and use their expertise, skills, and insights to...

Pervasive computing and environmental sustainability : two conference workshops (2009)

Foth, Marcus, Paulos, Eric, Satchell, Christine, Dourish, Paul

Two workshops held at Pervasive 2008 and UbiComp 2008 brought together people who work on pervasive computing and HCI to tackle ecological concerns and use their expertise, skills, and insights to...

Pervasive computing and environmental sustainability : two conference workshops (2009)

Foth, Marcus, Paulos, Eric, Satchell, Christine, Dourish, Paul

Two workshops held at Pervasive 2008 and UbiComp 2008 brought together people who work on pervasive computing and HCI to tackle ecological concerns and use their expertise, skills, and insights to...

Pervasive computing and environmental sustainability : two conference workshops (2009)

Foth, Marcus, Paulos, Eric, Satchell, Christine, Dourish, Paul

Two workshops held at Pervasive 2008 and UbiComp 2008 brought together people who work on pervasive computing and HCI to tackle ecological concerns and use their expertise, skills, and insights to...

A Multi-Dimensional Scheduler Supporting Critics (2008)

Paul Dourish

Traditional scheduling software enforces a single model of describing events – the time stream. However, studies of activity and information management show that people’s conception of time and...

Cognitive and Cultural Views of Emotions (2008)

Rogério Depaula, Paul Dourish

HCI’s historical and intellectual roots lie in cognitive science and the central underlying philosophical claim of cognitivism, that the mind can be understood and modeled in computational terms....

Nimio: An Ambient Awareness Device (2008)

Johanna Brewer, A Williams, Paul Dourish

Abstract. CSCW research highlights the importance of awareness of coworkers ’ activity. We present a desktop device that by combining a tangible interface with an ambient display, supports fluid...

Research in Privacy and Security In the Eye of the Beholder: A Visualization-based Approach to Information System Security (2008)

Rogério De Paula, Xianghua Ding, Paul Dourish, Kari Nies, Ben Pillet, David F. Redmiles, ...

Computer system security is traditionally regarded as a primarily technological concern; the fundamental questions to which security researchers address themselves are those of the mathematical...

Reimagining the City: The Cultural Dimensions of Urban Computing (2008)

A Williams, Paul Dourish

Much urban computing research focuses on cities as generic settings and containers of action. However, cities can also be viewed as products of historically and culturally situated practices and...

DOI 10.1007/s00779-003-0253-8 ORIGINAL ARTICLE (2008)

Paul Dourish

Abstract The emergence of ubiquitous computing as a new design paradigm poses significant challenges for human-computer interaction (HCI) and interaction design. Traditionally, HCI has taken place...

Cultural Mobilities: Diversity and Agency in Urban Computing (2008)

Paul Dourish, Ken Anderson, Dawn Nafus

Abstract. The rise of wireless networks and portable computing devices has been accompanied by an increasing interest in technology and mobility, and in the urban environment as a site of...

Accountabilities of Presence: Reframing Location-Based Systems (2008)

Emily Troshynski, Charlotte Lee, Paul Dourish

How do mobility and presence feature as aspects of social life? Using a case study of paroled offenders tracked via Global Positioning System (GPS), we explore the ways that location-based...

London School of Economics (2008)

Urban Computing, Arianna Bassoli, Johanna Brewer, Paul Dourish, Karen Martin, Scott Mainwaring

An ethnographic study and a design proposal for a situated music-exchange application suggest how explicitly foregrounding the experiential qualities of urban life can help rethink urban computing...

Responibilities and Implications: Further thoughts on Ethnography and design (2008)

Paul Dourish

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial...

Very high-level languages. (2008)

Cristina Videira Lopes, Paul Dourish, David H. Lorenz, Karl Lieberherr

{lopes, jpd} @ ics.uci.edu Software understanding (for documentation, maintenance or evolution) is one of the longest-standing problems in Computer Science. The use of “high-level ” programming...

International Journal of Human Computer Studies Special Issue on HCI Research in Privacy and Security, 63(1-2), 5-24. 2005. In the Eye of the Beholder: A Visualization-based Approach to Information System Security (2008)

Rogério De Paula, Xianghua Ding, Paul Dourish, Kari Nies, Ben Pillet, David F. Redmiles, ...

Computer system security is traditionally regarded as a primarily technological concern; the fundamental questions to which security researchers address themselves are those of the mathematical...

This paper appears in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 5(2), 109-155. Using Metalevel Techniques in a Flexible Toolkit for CSCW Applications (2008)

Paul Dourish

Abstract. Ideally, software toolkits for collaborative applications should provide generic, reusable components, applicable in a wide range of circumstances, which software developers can assemble to...

What are we Interacting With? : Architectural Reflection for Technical Translucence in Ubiquitous Computing (2008)

Mads Ingstrup, Paul Dourish

Abstract. A number of researchers have observed that ubiquitous applications pose new challenges to usability because their locus of interaction has moved away from the traditional computer desktop...

Imaging and Imagining the City (2008)

Johanna Brewer, Paul Dourish

Our recent work has focused on the city as a site of interaction and, in particular, how emerging technological infrastructures provide an opportunity to re-encounter urban space. One of the starting...

This is a draft paper in preparation for a special issue of Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction on “HCI in the New Millennium. ” Please do not cite or distribute without permission. Embodied Interaction: Exploring the Foundations of a New Approach (2008)

Paul Dourish

As we move towards the close of the millennium, it is perhaps not surprising that we take the “long view ” and attempt to find, in the history of HCI, clues to its future. In that vein, this...

Management (2008)

Paul Dourish

Systems coordinating distributed collaborative work must manage user data distributed over a network. The strong consistency algorithms which designers have typically borrowed from the distributed...

Temporality in Medical Work: Time also Matters (2008)

Madhu C. Reddy, Paul Dourish, Wanda Pratt

Abstract. CSCW has long been concerned with the distribution of activities in time and in space, but the problems of distributed work have often taken analytic and technical precedence. In this...

P.: Situated Privacies: Do you know where you mother [trucker] is (2008)

Ken Anderson, Paul Dourish

We describe the privacy practices of long haul truckers and members of an assisted living center. We conclude that conventional interpretations of privacy, namely, cost/benefit trade-offs of...

Cultural Mobilities: Diversity and Agency in Urban Computing (2008)

Paul Dourish, Ken Anderson, Dawn Nafus

Abstract. The rise of wireless networks and portable computing devices has been accompanied by an increasing interest in technology and mobility, and in the urban environment as a site of...

Abstract Accounting for System Behaviour: Representation, Reflection and Resourceful Action (2008)

Paul Dourish

A clear tension exists between the traditional process-oriented view of interface design and the emerging improvisation-oriented view of interface activity, which arises particularly from...

Towards A Reflective Model of Collaborative Systems (2008)

Paul Dourish

In recent years, we have come to understand that the design of effective interactive systems is not simply about implementation models and techniques, but also about aspects of the system in use,...

Medium versus mechanism: Supporting collaboration through customisation (2008)

H. Marmolin, Y. Sundblad, K. Schmidt (editors, Richard Bentley, Paul Dourish

Abstract The study of cooperative work as a socially-situated activity has led to a focus on providing 'mechanisms ' that more closely resonate with existing work practice. In this paper we...

Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism (Workshop) (2008)

Paulos, Eric, Foth, Marcus, Satchell, Christine, Kim, Younghui, Dourish, Paul, Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong

In this workshop we propose to explore new approaches to bring about real environmental change by looking at the success of empowering technologies that enable grassroots activism and bottom up...

Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism (Workshop) (2008)

Paulos, Eric, Foth, Marcus, Satchell, Christine, Kim, Younghui, Dourish, Paul, Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong

In this workshop we propose to explore new approaches to bring about real environmental change by looking at the success of empowering technologies that enable grassroots activism and bottom up...

Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism (Workshop) (2008)

Paulos, Eric, Foth, Marcus, Satchell, Christine, Kim, Younghui, Dourish, Paul, Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong

In this workshop we propose to explore new approaches to bring about real environmental change by looking at the success of empowering technologies that enable grassroots activism and bottom up...

Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism (Workshop) (2008)

Paulos, Eric, Foth, Marcus, Satchell, Christine, Kim, Younghui, Dourish, Paul, Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong

In this workshop we propose to explore new approaches to bring about real environmental change by looking at the success of empowering technologies that enable grassroots activism and bottom up...

Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism (Workshop) (2008)

Paulos, Eric, Foth, Marcus, Satchell, Christine, Kim, Younghui, Dourish, Paul, Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong

In this workshop we propose to explore new approaches to bring about real environmental change by looking at the success of empowering technologies that enable grassroots activism and bottom up...

Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism (Workshop) (2008)

Paulos, Eric, Foth, Marcus, Satchell, Christine, Kim, Younghui, Dourish, Paul, Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong

In this workshop we propose to explore new approaches to bring about real environmental change by looking at the success of empowering technologies that enable grassroots activism and bottom up...

Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism (Workshop) (2008)

Paulos, Eric, Foth, Marcus, Satchell, Christine, Kim, Younghui, Dourish, Paul, Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong

In this workshop we propose to explore new approaches to bring about real environmental change by looking at the success of empowering technologies that enable grassroots activism and bottom up...

Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism (Workshop) (2008)

Paulos, Eric, Foth, Marcus, Satchell, Christine, Kim, Younghui, Dourish, Paul, Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong

In this workshop we propose to explore new approaches to bring about real environmental change by looking at the success of empowering technologies that enable grassroots activism and bottom up...

Open Implementation and Flexibility (2007)

In Cscwtoolkits, Paul Dourish

This distribution copy has been repaginated to reduce its size. The page numbers are not the same as in the submitted version. Please do not cite anything by page number. Abstract.

Émigré: Metalevel Architecture and Migratory Work (2007)

Paul Dourish

Abstract. Migratory work extends traditional mobile work with an innate awareness of, and adaptability to, both technical and social surroundings. We are designing a technical framework, Émigré,...

FROM USABILITY TO EXPERIENCE (2007)

Paul Dourish

Moore’s Law sets the pace for computational life. Originally noted in 1964 by Intel founder Gordon Moore, it observes that the achievable density of components on a silicon substrate doubles...

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Paul Dourish

Recent years have seen a shift in perception of the nature of HCI and interactive systems. As interface work has increasingly become a focus of attention for the social sciences, we have expanded our...

Copyright Rank Xerox Ltd 1993. (2007)

Paul Dourish

In recent years, we have come to understand that the design of effective interactive systems is not simply about implementation models and techniques, but also about aspects of the system in use,...

Dourish, A Divergence-Based Model of Synchrony and Distribution 1 (2007)

Paul Dourish

Rather than embodying the behaviour of toolkit components directly in their implementation, metalevel techniques provide programmers with ways to override and revise them. The style of very flexible...

Open Implementation and Flexibility (2007)

In Cscw Toolkits, In Cscwtoolkits, Paul Dourish, Paul Dourish

This distribution copy has been repaginated to reduce its size. The page numbers are not the same as in the submitted version. Please do not cite anything by page number. Abstract.

Underground (2007)

Rethinking Urban Computing, Arianna Bassoli, Johanna Brewer, Karen Martin, Paul Dourish, Scott Mainwaring, ...

This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying...

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design advance online publication DOI:10.1068/b32035t (2007)

Paul Dourish, Genevieve Bell

The infrastructure of experience and the experience of infrastructure: meaning and structure in everyday encounters with space

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2007, volume 34, pages 414^430 DOI:10.1068/b32035t (2007)

Paul Dourish, Genevieve Bell

The infrastructure of experience and the experience of infrastructure: meaning and structure in everyday encounters with space

How emotion is made and measured (2007)

Kirsten Boehner, Rogério Depaula, Paul Dourish, Phoebe Sengers

How we design and evaluate for emotions depends crucially on what we take emotions to be. In affective computing, affect is often taken to be another kind of information- discrete units or states...

Goethe Universität Frankfurt (2006)

D. Abowd, Keith Edwards, Dr. Paul Dourish

A Sarah che ha imparato la sua pazienza e me l’ha donata.

Implications for Design (2006)

Paul Dourish

Although ethnography has become a common approach in HCI research and design, considerable confusion still attends both ethnographic practice and the criteria by which it should be evaluated in HCI....

Implications for Design (2006)

Paul Dourish

Although ethnography has become a common approach in HCI research and design, considerable confusion still attends both ethnographic practice and the metrics by which it should be evaluated in HCI....

Two Experiences Designing for Effective Security (2005)

Rogério De Paula, Xianghua Ding, Paul Dourish, Kari Nies, Ben Pillet, David Redmiles, ...

In our research, we have been concerned with the question of how to make relevant features of security situations visible to users in order to allow them to make informed decisions regarding...

Two Experiences Designing for Effective Security (2005)

Rogério De Paula, Xianghua Ding, Paul Dourish, Kari Nies, Ben Pillet, David Redmiles, ...

In our research, we have been concerned with the question of how to make relevant features of security situations visible to users in order to allow them to make informed decisions regarding...

Information as a cultural category (2005)

Paul Dourish, Johanna Brewer, Genevieve Bell

One of the questions that invariably comes up when discussing ambient intelligence is the thorny problem of just what the term might mean. It’s catchy and provocative, but attempts to define it...

Towards an Architectural Treatment of Software Security: a Connector-Centric Approach (2005)

Jie Ren, Richard Taylor, Paul Dourish, David Redmiles

Security is a very important concern for software architecture and software components. Previous modeling approaches provide insufficient support for an in-depth treatment of security. This paper...

Towards an Architectural Treatment of Software Security: a Connector-Centric Approach (2005)

Jie Ren, Richard Taylor, Paul Dourish, David Redmiles

Security is a very important concern for software architecture and software components. Previous modeling approaches provide insufficient support for an in-depth treatment of security. This paper...

Social navigation as a model for usable security (2005)

Paul Digioia, Paul Dourish

As interest in usable security spreads, the use of visual approaches in which the functioning of a distributed system is made visually available to end users is an approach that a number of...

Privacy, Security... and Risk and Danger and Secrecy and Trust and Morality and Identity and Power: Understanding Collective Information Practices (2005)

Ken Anderson, Paul Dourish, Ken Anderson, Paul Dourish, Ken Anderson

As everyday life is increasingly conducted online, and as the electronic world continues to move out into the physical, the privacy of information and action and the security of information systems...

Affect: From Information to Interaction (2005)

Kirsten Boehner, Rogério Depaula, Paul Dourish, Phoebe Sengers

While affective computing explicitly challenges the primacy of rationality in cognitivist accounts of human activity, at a deeper level it relies on and reproduces the same information-processing...

From interaction to participation: Configuring space through embodied interaction (2005)

A Williams, Eric Kabisch, Paul Dourish

Abstract. When computation moves off the desktop, how will it transform the new spaces that it comes to occupy? How will people encounter and understand these spaces, and how will they interact with...

Continuous Coordination: A New Paradigm for Collaborative Software Engineering Tools (2004)

David Redmiles, Paul Dourish, Anita Sarma, Roberto Silva Filho, Cleidson De Souza

Collaborative software engineering tools that have been developed and used to date exhibit a fundamental paradox: they are meant to support the collaborative activity of software development, but...

Strategies for Thinking Socially about Technology (2004)

Paul Dourish

Much of the research in the ICT program attempts to understand technology in use from a perspective that combines both technical and sociological considerations. However, students enter our program...

What we talk about when we talk about context (2004)

Paul Dourish

Abstract. The emergence of ubiquitous computing as a new design paradigm poses significant challenges for HCI and interaction design. Traditionally, human-computer interaction has taken place within...

What we talk about when we talk about context (2004)

Paul Dourish

Abstract. The emergence of ubiquitous computing as a new design paradigm poses significant challenges for HCI and interaction design. Traditionally, human-computer interaction has taken place within...

Security in the Wild: User Strategies for Managing Security as an Everyday, Practical Problem (2004)

Paul Dourish, Rebecca E. Grinter, Jessica Delgado, De La, Melissa Joseph

Abstract: Ubiquitous and mobile technologies create new challenges for system security. Effective security solutions depend not only on the mathematical and technical properties of those solutions,...

Everyday Encounters with Context-Aware Computing in a Campus Environment (2004)

Louise Barkhuus, Paul Dourish

Abstract. As ubiquitous computing technologies mature, they must move out of laboratory settings and into the everyday world. In the process, they will increasingly be used by heterogeneous groups,...

Security as an Everyday, Practical Problem (2003)

Paul Dourish, Rebecca E. Grinter, Brinda Dalal, Melissa Joseph, Paul Dourish, ...

Effective security solutions depend not only on the mathematical and technical properties of those solutions, but also on people’s ability to understand them and use them as part of their work. As...

Beyond AOP: Toward Naturalistic Programming (2003)

Cristina Videira Lopes, Paul Dourish, David H

{lopes, jpd} @ ics.uci.edu Software understanding for documentation, maintenance or evolution is one of the longest-standing problems in Computer Science. The use of “high-level ” programming...

Beyond AOP: Toward Naturalistic Programming (2003)

Cristina Videira Lopes, Paul Dourish, David H

{lopes, jpd} @ ics.uci.edu Software understanding for documentation, maintenance or evolution is one of the longest-standing problems in Computer Science. The use of “high-level ” programming...

The appropriation of interactive technologies: Some lessons from placeless documents (2003)

Paul Dourish

Appropriation is the process by which people adopt and adapt technologies, fitting them into their working practices. It is similar to customisation, but concerns the adoption patterns of technology...

www.isr.uci.edu/tech-reports.html Security Day-to-Day: User Strategies for Managing (2003)

Paul Dourish, Rebecca E. Grinter, Brinda Dalal, Melissa Joseph, Paul Dourish, ...

Effective security solutions depend not only on the mathematical and technical properties of those solutions, but also on people’s ability to understand them and use them as part of their work. As...

Unpacking "Privacy" for a Networked World (2003)

Leysia Palen, Paul Dourish

Although privacy is broadly recognized as a dominant concern for the development of novel interactive technologies, our ability to reason analytically about privacy in real settings is limited. A...

ACTIVATING TH E SOCIAL W ORKSCAPE (2002)

Danyel Fisher, Paul Dourish

Today’s PC is very much a “personal ” computer. Conventional computer systems are designed around the paradigm of an individual user sitting in front of a single computer. The interaction model...

An Approach to Usable Security based on Event Monitoring and Visualization (2002)

Paul Dourish, David Redmiles

The thorny problem of usability has been recognized in the security community for many years, but has, so far, eluded systematic solution. We characterize the problem as a gap between theoretical and...

Www.isr.uci.edu/tech-Reports.html (2002)

Danyel Fisher, Danyel Fisher, Danyel Fisher, Paul Dourish, Paul Dourish, Paul Dourish

Most everyday tasks performed on or through computer systems involve multiple people. Documents are written for others and sent to them; email messages arrive from individuals and are sent to groups;...

An Approach to Usable Security based on Event Monitoring and Visualization (2002)

Paul Dourish, David Redmiles

The thorny problem of usability has been recognized in the security community for many years, but has, so far, eluded systematic solution. We characterize the problem as a gap between theoretical and...

Coordinating Heterogeneous Work: Information and Representation in Medical Care (2001)

Madhu C. Reddy, Paul Dourish, A Pratt

Medical care involves intense collaboration amongst a number of practitioners including physicians, nurses, and pharmacists Their work is concentrated on a single patient, and yet their activities,...

Coordinating Heterogeneous Work: Information and Representation in Medical Care (2001)

Madhu C. Reddy, Paul Dourish, A Pratt

Medical care involves intense collaboration amongst a number of practitioners including physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. Their work is concentrated on a single patient, and yet their activities,...

Seeking a Foundation for context-aware computing (2001)

Paul Dourish

Computer Science at UC Irvine. His principal research areas are in HCI and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work; his current research involves the design and evaluation of collaborative information...

Coordinating Heterogeneous Work: Information and Representation in Medical Care (2001)

Madhu C. Reddy, Paul Dourish, A Pratt

Medical care involves intense collaboration amongst a number of practitioners including physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. Their work is concentrated on a single patient, and yet their activities,...

Www.isr.uci.edu/tech-Reports.html (2001)

Paul Dourish, Paul Dourish, Paul Dourish

The field of Human-Computer Interaction has been undergoing an upheaval over the past several years. Traditional usability-based approaches have been joined by (or even supplanted by) new approaches...

Extending Document Management Systems with User-Specific Active Properties (2000)

Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards, Anthony Lamarca, John Lamping, Karin Petersen, Michael Salisbury, ...

Document properties are a compelling basis for the design of a document management infrastructure. They avoid many of the problems of traditional hierarchical storage mechanisms, reflect higher-level...

A tale of two toolkits: Relating infrastructure and use in flexible CSCW toolkits (2000)

Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards

Abstract. The design of software toolkits embodies a fundamental tension. On the one hand, it aims to reduce programmer effort by providing prefabricated, reusable software modules encapsulating...

The Doctor Is In: Helping End Users Understand the Health of Distributed Systems (2000)

Paul Dourish, Danielc. Swinehart

Abstract. Users need know nothing of the internals of distributed applications that are performing well. However, when performance flags or fails, a depiction of system behavior from the user’s...

Computer Supported Cooperative Work 9: 33--51, 2000. (2000)

Tale Of Two, Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards

The design of software toolkits embodies a fundamental tension. On the one hand, it aims to reduce programmer effort by providing prefabricated, reusable software modules encapsulating common...

A programming model for active documents (2000)

Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards, Jon Howell, Anthony Lamarca, John Lamping, Karin Petersen, ...

Traditionally, designers organize software system as active end-points (e.g. applications) linked by passive infrastructures (e.g. networks). Increasingly, however, networks and infrastructures are...

Using properties for uniform interaction in the presto document system (1999)

Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards, Anthony Lamarca, Michael Salisbury

Most document or information management systems rely on hierarchies to organise documents (e.g. files, email messages or web bookmarks). However, the rigid structures of hierarchical schemes do not...

Caching documents with active properties (1999)

Eyal De Lara, Karin Petersen, Douglas B. Terry, Anthony Lamarca, Jim Thornton, Paul Dourish, ...

Caching in the Placeless Documents system poses new challenges because users can attach active properties to documents. Active properties can modify the document’s content as seen by a user. Thus,...

Caching documents with active properties (1999)

Eyal De Lara, Karin Petersen, Douglas B. Terry, Anthony Lamarca, Jim Thornton, Paul Dourish, ...

' 1999 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for...

Caching documents with active properties (1999)

Eyal De Lara, Karin Petersen, Douglas B. Terry, Anthony Lamarca, Jim Thornton, Paul Dourish, ...

' 1999 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for...

Caching Documents with Active Properties (1999)

Eyal De Lara, Karin Petersen, Douglas B. Terry, Anthony Lamarca, Jim Thornton, Mike Salisbury, ...

Caching in the Placeless Documents system poses new challenges because users can attach active properties to documents. Active properties can modify the document's content as seen by a user....

Evolution in the Adoption and Use of Collaborative Technologies (1999)

Paul Dourish

this paper, I want to sketch some aspects of appropriation, drawing on a couple of examples. The examples I draw upon here are ones that I've been involved in myself in one way or another. They...

Taking the Work out of Workflow: Mechanisms for Document-Centered Collaboration (1999)

Anthony Lamarca Keith, W. Keith Edwards, Paul Dourish, John Lamping, Ian Smith, Jim Thornton

: There are two aspects to technical support for collaborative activity; support for content work and support for coordination. The design of CSCW systems must typically address both of these,...

Extending Document Management Systems with User-Specific Active Properties (1999)

Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards, Anthony Lamarca, John Lamping, Karin Petersen, Michael Salisbury, ...

Document properties are a compelling infrastructure on which to develop document management applications. A property-based approach avoids many of the problems of traditional hierarchical storage...

Taking the Work out of Workflow: Mechanisms for Document-Centered Collaboration (1999)

Anthony Lamarca, W. Keith Edwards, Paul Dourish, John Lamping, Ian Smith, Jim Thornton

: There are two aspects to technical support for collaborative activity; support for content work and support for coordination. The design of CSCW systems must typically address both of these,...

Presto: An Experimental Architecture for Fluid Interactive Document Spaces (1999)

Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards, Anthony Lamarca, Michael Salisbury

Abstract. Traditional document systems use hierarchical filing structures as the basis for organising, storing and retrieving documents. However, this structure is very limited in comparison with the...

Using properties for uniform interaction in the presto document system (1999)

Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards, Anthony Lamarca, Michael Salisbury

Most document or information management systems rely on hierarchies to organise documents (e.g. files, email messages or web bookmarks). However, the rigid structures of hierarchical schemes do not...

Getting some perspective: using process descriptions to index document history (1999)

Paul Dourish, Richard Bentley, Rachel Jones, Allan Maclean

Process descriptions are used in workflow and related systems to describe the flow of work and organisational responsibility in business processes, and to aid in coordination. However, the division...

Presto: An Experimental Architecture for Fluid Interactive Document Spaces (1999)

Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards, Anthony Lamarca, Michael Salisbury

Abstract. Traditional document systems use hierarchical filing structures as the basis for organising, storing and retrieving documents. However, this structure is very limited in comparison with the...

On Technomethodology: Foundational Relationships between Ethnomethodology and System Design (1998)

Paul Dourish, Graham Button

Over the past ten years, the use of sociological methods and sociological reasoning have become more prominent in the analysis and design of interactive systems. For a variety of reasons, one form of...

Organising User Interfaces around Reflective Accounts (1996)

Paul Dourish, Annette Adler, Brian Cantwell Smith

Over recent years, studies of human-computer interaction (HCI) from sociological and anthropological perspectives have offered radical new perspectives on how we use computer systems. These have...

Technomethodology: Paradoxes and Possibilities (1996)

Graham Button, Paul Dourish

The design of CSCW systems has often had its roots in ethnomethodological understandings of work and investigations of working settings. Increasingly, we are also seeing these ideas applied to...

Your Place or Mine? Learning from Long-Term Use of Audio-Video Communication (1996)

Paul Dourish, Annette Adler, Austin Henderson

Abstract. Workstations and personal computers are increasingly being delivered with the ability to handle multimedia data; more and more of us are linked by high-speed digital networks. With...

Open Implementation and Flexibility in CSCW Toolkits (1996)

Paul Dourish Of, In Cscw Toolkits, Paul Dourish

. 3 Abstract The design of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) systems involves a variety of disciplinary approaches, drawing as much on sociological and psychological perspectives on group...

Your Place or Mine? Learning from Long-Term Use of Audio-Video Communication (1996)

Paul Dourish, Annette Adler, Victoria Bellotti, Austin Henderson

. Workstations and personal computers are increasingly being delivered with the ability to handle multimedia data; more and more of us are linked by high-speed digital networks. With multimedia...

Open Implementation and Flexibility in CSCW Toolkits (1996)

In Cscw Toolkits, Paul Dourish

. 3 Abstract The design of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) systems involves a variety of disciplinary approaches, drawing as much on sociological and psychological perspectives on group...

Open Implementation and Flexibility (1996)

Paul Dourish, Paul Dourish

This distribution copy has been repaginated to reduce its size. The page numbers are not the same as in the submitted version. Please do not cite anything by page number. Abstract. The design of...

Freeflow: Mediating Between Representation and Action in Workflow Systems (1996)

Paul Dourish, Jim Holmes, Allan Maclean, Pernille Marqvardsen, Alex Zbyslaw

In order to understand some problems associated with workflow, we set out an analysis of workflow systems, identifying a number of basic issues in the underlying technology. This points to the...

Re-place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in Collaborative Systems (1996)

Steve Harrison, Paul Dourish

Many collaborative and communicative environments use notions of “space ” and spatial organisation to facilitate and structure interaction. We argue that a focus on spatial models is misplaced....

Developing a Reflective Model of Collaborative Systems (1995)

Paul Dourish

Recent years have seen a shift in perception of the nature of HCI and interactive systems. As interface work has increasingly become a focus of attention for the social sciences, we have expanded our...

Medium versus Mechanism: Supporting Collaboration through Customisation (1995)

Richard Bentley, Paul Dourish

Abstract: The study of cooperative work as a socially-situated activity has led to a focus on providing 'mechanisms ' that more closely resonate with existing work practice. In this paper...

The Parting of the Ways: Divergence, Data Management and Collaborative Work (1995)

Paul Dourish Copyright, Copyright Rank, Paul Dourish, Paul Dourish

Systems coordinating distributed collaborative work must manage user data distributed over a network. The strong consistency algorithms which designers have typically borrowed from the distributed...

Medium versus mechanism: Supporting collaboration through customisation (1995)

Richard Bentley German, Richard Bentley, Paul Dourish

: The study of cooperative work as a socially-situated activity has led to a focus on providing 'mechanisms' that more closely resonate with existing work practice. In this paper we...

The Parting of the Ways: Divergence, Data Management and Collaborative Work (1995)

Paul Dourish Rank, Paul Dourish

: Systems coordinating distributed collaborative work must manage user data distributed over a network. The strong consistency algorithms which designers have typically borrowed from the distributed...

The Parting of the Ways: Divergence, Data Management and Collaborative Work (1995)

Paul Dourish

: Systems coordinating distributed collaborative work must manage user data distributed over a network. The strong consistency algorithms which designers have typically borrowed from the distributed...

Developing A Reflective Model of Collaborative Systems (1995)

Paul Dourish

Recent years have seen a shift in perception of the nature of HCI and interactive systems. As interface work has increasingly become a focus of attention for the social sciences, we have expanded our...

Developing A Reflective Model of Collaborative Systems (1995)

Paul Dourish

Recent years have seen a shift in perception of the nature of HCI and interactive systems. As interface work has increasingly become a focus of attention for the social sciences, we have expanded our...

Developing a Reflective Model of Collaborative Systems (1995)

Paul Dourish

Recent years have seen a shift in perception of the nature of HCI and interactive systems. As interface work has increasingly become a focus of attention for the social sciences, we have expanded our...

Networked multimedia support for informal collaboration (1994)

Paul Dourish, Victoria Bellotti

work at EuroPARC, we have, over the last five years or so, been studying the use of networked multimedia environments, or media spaces, in supporting work group

A Divergence-Based Model of Synchrony and Distribution in Collaborative Systems", EuroPARC (1994)

Paul Dourish, Paul Dourish

Rather than embodying the behaviour of toolkit components directly in their implementation, metalevel techniques provide programmers with ways to override and revise them. The style of very flexible...

Designing for Change: Reflective Metalevel Architectures for Deep Customisation in CSCW (1993)

Paul Dourish, Paul Dourish

The past few years have seen a steadily increasing understanding of the need for customisation and tailorability in a range of computational systems. This has resulted both from a greater...

Culture and Control in a Media Space (1993)

Paul Dourish

Abstract: Media spaces integrate audio, video and computer networking technology in order to provide a rich communicative environment for collaboration. The connectivity which they provide brings...

Culture and Control in a Media Space (1993)

Paul Dourish

Abstract: Media spaces integrate audio, video and computer networking technology in order to provide a rich communicative environment for collaboration. The connectivity which they provide brings...

Culture and Control in a Media Space (1993)

Paul Dourish

: Media spaces integrate audio, video and computer networking technology in order to provide a rich communicative environment for collaboration. The connectivity which they provide brings with it...

Culture and Control in a Media Space (1993)

Paul Dourish

: Media spaces integrate audio, video and computer networking technology in order to provide a rich communicative environment for collaboration. The connectivity which they provide brings with it...

Designing for Change: Reflective Metalevel Architectures for Deep Customisation in CSCW (1993)

Paul Dourish, Paul Dourish

The past few years have seen a steadily increasing understanding of the need for customisation and tailorability in a range of computational systems. This has resulted both from a greater...

Information and context: Lessons from a study of two shared information systems (1993)

Paul Dourish, Victoria Bellotti, Wendy Mackay, Ying Ma

With the increasing ease and power of wmputer netsvorking technologies, many organisations me taking information which was previously managed and distributed on paper aud making it available...

Computational Reflection and CSCW Design (1992)

Paul Dourish

"Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?"--- J.M. Barrie, "Peter Pan" Designing computer systems to support collaborative...

Awareness and Coordination in Shared Work Spaces (1992)

Cambridge Europarc, Paul Dourish, Victoria Bellotti

Awareness of individual and group activities is critical to successful collaboration and is commonly supported in CSCW systems by active, information generation mechanisms separate from the shared...

Awareness and Coordination in Shared Work Spaces (1992)

Cambridge Europarc, Paul Dourish, Victoria Bellotti

Awareness of individual and group activities is critical to successful collaboration and is commonly supported in CSCW systems by active, information generation mechanisms separate from the shared...

Computational Reflection and CSCW Design (1992)

Paul Dourish

“Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?” — J.M. Barrie, “Peter Pan” Designing computer systems to support collaborative work is hard. One of the...

Portholes: Supporting Awareness in a Distributed Work Group (1992)

Paul Dourish, Sara Bly

We are investigating ways in which media space technologies can support distributed work groups through access to information that supports general awareness. Awareness involves knowing who is...

Portholes: Supporting Awareness in a Distributed Work Group (1992)

Paul Dourish

We are investigating ways in which media space technologies can support distributed work groups through access to information that supports general awareness. Awareness involves knowing who is...

Godard: A Flexible Architecture for Audio/Video Services in a Media Space (1991)

Paul Dourish

Research into the use of audio-video technologies for collaboration frequently raises issues of privacy and control for the users of these systems. Common problems are those of protecting individual...

Rank Xerox Research Centre (1991)

Cambridge Laboratory Regent, Paul Dourish

Research into the use of audio-video technologies for collaboration frequently raises issues of privacy and control for the users of these systems. Common problems are those of protecting individual...

Godard: A flexible Architecture for Audio/Video Services in a Media Space (1991)

Paul Dourish

“It wasn’t very civil of you to offer it, ” said Alice, angrily. “It wasn’t very civil of you to sit down without being invited, ” said the March Hare. Research into the use of...

Asking questions: information needs in a surgical intensive care unit.

Reddy, Madhu C., Pratt, Wanda, Dourish, Paul, Shabot, Michael

Even in the information-rich environment of hospitals, health-care providers face challenges in addressing their various information needs. Through a study of a patient-care team in a tertiary care...

The infrastructure of experience and the experience of infrastructure: meaning and structure in everyday encounters with space

Paul Dourish, Genevieve Bell

Although the current developments in ubiquitous and pervasive computing are driven largely by technological opportunities, they have radical implications not just for technology design but also for...