Since 1984, the Condor project has enabled ordinary users to do extraordinary computing. Today, the project continues to explore the social and technical problems of cooperative computing on scales ranging from the desktop to the world-wide computational grid. In this chapter, we provide the history and philosophy of the Condor project and describe how it has interacted with other projects and ...

With the advances in information and communications technology, mobile computing is becoming prevalent, leading to a decrease in faceto-face interactions. This study analyses how this has a negative impact on social capital between coworkers where levels of embeddedness, trust and common knowledge decrease. It also shows how the technology used by mobile workers mitigates the negative effect of...

Citation: Kostoulas T, Chanel G, Muszynski M, Lombardo P and Pun T (2017) Films, Affective Computing and Aesthetic Experience: Identifying Emotional and Aesthetic Highlights from Multimodal Signals in a Social Setting. Front. ICT 4:11. doi: 10.3389/fict.2017.00011 Films, affective computing and aesthetic experience: identifying emotional and aesthetic highlights from Multimodal signals in a soc...

A natural succeeding process for the Internet was to create Social Networks (e.g. Facebook, among others), where anyone in the World can share their experiences, knowledge and information, using personal computers or mobile devices. In fact, Social Networks can be regarded as enabling information sharing in a peer-to-peer fashion. Given the enormous number of users, sharing could also be applie...

I magine a world without architects, where only engineers construct buildings. With a keen eye toward functionality, these engineers would make sure the buildings were sound, but something would be lacking. People would miss the richness of architecture— the designed connection to their lives, history, and culture. The designed experience of these buildings would be irrelevant to their social a...

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Although mobile phones can help us stay connected with friends, family, and colleagues, these personal communication devices can also isolate us from the world around us by drawing our attention into a private digital realm. In contrast, public displays can catalyze conversation with people nearby. Mobile phones with integrated pico projectors have the potential to combine the phone’s computati...

My research is at the intersection of computer science and economics. I study systems where multiple self-interested agents interact and I aim to design such systems to achieve desirable outcomes. Lately, researchers are increasingly making use of large and distributed groups of participants to solve complex problems. For example, businesses including Amazon, Yelp, and Expedia strive to collect...

Urban enclaves have richly interconnected social and physical geographies, much of which is hidden from casual observation. As a result, interpersonal collaboration, coordination, and socio-physical navigation is often suboptimal. We are exploring how ubiquitous social computing applications that seamlessly provide location-aware information about people and places could help address this situa...