Interactive virtual worlds provide a powerful medium for experimental learning and entertainment. Nowadays, virtual environments often incorporate human-like embodied virtual agents with varying degrees of intelligence, getting what we call Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs). Collaboration between agents can be very important to reach aware of what is surrounding each agent each and every moment...

One of the main challenges that has come to face system designers in the last decade had been to accomplish an adequate characterisation of the social properties of the work settings into which systems have to fit. Grudin (1990:261) describes this as an "outward movement of the computer's interface to its external environment, from hardware to software to increasingly higher-level cognitive cap...

The topic of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has attracted much attention in the last few years. While the field is obviously still in the process of development, there is a marked ambiguity about exactly what is or is not included under its rubric. The lack of a commonly accepted view on the nature of the field may hinder its further development and lead to fractionation. In this pa...

Cochlear implant (CI) users are unable to receive masking release and the reasons are unclear. The present study examines the hypothesis that when listening to speech in fluctuating maskers, CI users cannot fuse the pieces of the message over temporal gaps because they are not able to perceive reliably the information carried by obstruent consonants (e.g., stops). To test this hypothesis, CI us...

Coordination and awareness have been topics in the area of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) starting from day one. Effortless coordination has been a major goal ever since. However, while awareness research became quite popular, coordination got increasingly out of focus. Its concepts stayed rather theoretical lacking concrete steps towards the original goal due to the absence of appr...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 N. Boulus-Rødje et al. (eds.), ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19–23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20499-4_6 Abstract Actors in the building process are critically dependent on a corpus of written text that draws the distributed work tasks together. This pap...

OBJECTIVES The main aim of this review article is to discuss implant-supported overdentures (ISOs) as treatment in edentulous patients. Besides, we will try to discuss among the different treatment options in such patients and to analyze their validity when ISOs are compared with other clinical modalities. At the same time, we will try to suggest clinical guidelines supported by current clinica...

The Internet has been evolving exponentially those two decades, and various types of communication systems for computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) are available throughout networks. Some of those systems provide handwriting functions, and handwritten messages are used often for authentication. In other communication systems, however, one needs information hiding. A requirement of a commu...

Despite the benefits offered by sharing economy, researchers have identified several challenges preventing disadvantaged groups (e.g. low socioeconomic status, un(der)employed and/or users from emerging regions) from receiving the same level of benefits as those from advantaged populations. This panel brings researchers from the sharing economy and mobile crowdsourcing space whose research has ...

The movement to establish uniform standards for the identification of empirically supported treatments (EST) has contributed to an impressive growth in the number of treatments deemed to have strong evidence of their efficacy. Those treatments meeting the most rigorous standards are often granted the label well-established and have been identified in a variety of online and print formats. An im...