Social  Spaces

Course Syllabus

Supplemental Readings

Note:  Reading critiques should be sent to me the night before the day listed in the syllabus.

 

 

Week 1

T   August 25

Introduction

What are Social Spaces ?
 

 

R   August 27

Tangible Interfaces

Readings:
Tangible Interfaces for Remote Collaboration and Communication  by Brave,S., Ishii,H., and Dahley,A. 
Examples of Krueger's 'VideoPlace' [1] [2] [3]
Some computer science issues in ubiquitous computing by Mark Weiser 
Work by Toshio Iwai  [1] [2] [3]
Bricks: Laying the Foundations for Graspable User Interfaces by Fitzmaurice, Ishii, and Buxton
Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits and Atoms by Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer

 

Week 2

T  September 1

Meta-Walls, Ambient Displays

Readings:
What Video Can and Can't do for Collaboration: A Case Study by Isaacs, E. and Tang, J.
Ambient Displays: Turning Architectural Space into an Interface between People and Digital Information by Wisneski, Ishii, Ullmer, and Yarin
Social immersive media: pursuing best practices for multi-user interactive camera/projector exhibits by Scott S. Snibbe and Hayes S. Raffle

BubbleWrap: a textile-based electromagnetic haptic display by Bau, Petrevski, and Mackay

 

R  September 3

Mobile Devices and Haptics

Readings:
Can you see me now?  by Benford et al

Evaluating Display Types for AR Selection and Annotation by Wither, DiVerdi, and Hollerer
Super Cilia Skin: A Textural Membrane by Raffle, Tichenor, and Ishii

Coincident display using haptics and holographic video by Wendy Plesniak and Ravikanth Pappu

 

Week 3

T  September 8

Design Projects

Present "Communication Object" or “MetaWall”  Design Projects

 

 

R  September 10

The Body - Gesture

Readings:
Myron Krueger, Artificial Reality [Chap 2,3]  [Chap 11]
Digital Identity  by L. Jean Camp
The Individual in a Social World  [Chap 2 - 6]  by Stanley Milgram
BodyChat: autonomous communicative behaviors in avatars by Hannes Vilhjalmsson and Justine Cassell
Performance pieces by Stelarc [site]

 

Week 4

T  September 15

Social Visualization
Background
Why is social visualization important?

Social Visualization examples:
Loom (http://web.media.mit.edu/~kkarahal/loom/index.html)
PostHistory (http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/posthistory/index.html)
HistoryFlow (http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/history/)
We Feel Fine(http://www.wefeelfine.org/ )

 

Readings:
The Chat Circles Series by Judith Donath and Fernanda Viegas
Digital Artifacts for Remembering and Storytelling by Viegas, boyd, Nguyen, Potter, and Donath
Arc Diagrams by Martin Wattenberg

 

 

R  September 17

Design Projects

Present Social Visualization Designs 

Week 5

T  September 22

Emotion: mood, tone

Readings:
Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Semantic Orientation Applied to Unsupervised Classification of Reviews by Turney
Affective-Cognitive Learning and Decision Making: A Motivational Reward Framework For Affective Agents by Ahn and Picard
Affective Computing by Roasalind Picard (reading given in class)

 

 

R   September 24

Design Projects

Present "Emotion/Sentiment" Design Projects

Week 6

T  September 29

Social Network Visualization

Readings:
Visualizing Social Networks by Linton C. Freeman
The Strength of Weak Ties by Mark. S. Granovetter

Predicting Tie Strength with Social Media by Gilbert and Karahalios

 

R  October 1

Social Network Visualization
Facebook, mySpace, Twitter, Wikipedia, Blogs  what is social software?

Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia by Priedhorsky, Chen, Lam, Panciera, Terveen, and Riedl
A Familiar Face(book): Profile Elements as Signals in an Online Social Network by Lampe, Ellison, and Steinield
The Network in the Garden: An Empirical Analysis of Social Media in Rural Life by Gilbert, Karahalios, and Sandvig

 

Week 7

T  October 6

Social Network Visualization

Readings:
Can You Ever Trust a Wiki? Impacting Perceived Trustworthiness in Wikipedia by Kittur, Suh, and Chi

Friends and Neighbors on the Web by Lada A. Adamic and Eytan Adar

The Rules of Virtual Groups: Trust, Liking, and Performance in Computer Mediated Communication by Joseph B. Walther and Ulla Bunz

 

R  October 8

Present Midterm Proposals

Week 8

T  October 13

Maps, Memory in Space

Readings:
The Image of the City (Chap 1, 2) (Chap 4) by Kevin Lynch 
What Time is this Place (Chap 7) by Kevin Lynch
Improving Speech Playback Using Time-Compression and Speech Recognition  by Vemuri et al

 

R  October 15

Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation
Protecting Participants and Facilitating Social and Behavioral Sciences Research 

Readings:
Making Work Visible by Lucy Suchman
The Problem of Informant Accuracy: The Validity of Retrospective Data by Bernard, Killworth, Kronenfeld, and Sailer
The Future of Polling: Relational Inference and the Development of Internet Survey Instruments by Witte and Howard (from Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy and the Future of American Democracy)

 

Week 9

T  October 20

William Whyte - Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

 

 

R   October 22

Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation

Readings:
Rapid Ethnography: Time Deepening Strategies for HCI Field Research by D.R. Millen
The Limits of Ethnography: Combining Social Sciences for CSCW by D. Shapiro
The Role of Ethnography in Interactive Systems Design by Hughes et al

 

Week 10

T   October 27

Present Midterm Projects

 

R   October 29

Present Midterm Projects

Week 11

T   November 3

The Face in the Interface
Portraiture
Caricature

Readings:
Should We Call it Expression or Communication? by Paul Ekman
Using a Human Face in an Interface by Walker, Sproull, and Subramani
Human Mental Models of Humanoid Robots by Lee and Kiesler
:::portraying the individual::: by Hugo Liu

 

R   November 5

Trust and Impression Formation

Readings:
Trust breaks down in electronic contexts but can be repaired by some initial face-to-face contact by Elena Rocco
Media spaces: bringing people together in a video, audio, and computing environment by Bly,S., Harrison,S., and Irwin,S.
Impression Formation in Cyberspace: Online Expectations and Offline Experiences in Text-based Virtual Communities by David Jacobson

Week 12

T  November 10

Final Project Proposals Due

 

R   November 12

Furniture, Fashion, Objects Revisited: active and passive

Readings:
Casablanca: Designing Social Communication Devices for the Home by Hindus et al
Sensetable: A Wireless Object Tracking Platform for Tangible User Interfaces by Patten et al
Minding your Practices: Exposure and Anonymity in Social Network Data by Caroline Haythornthwaite

Week 13

T  November 17

Design Projects

 

Present "Interactive Portrait" Design Projects

 

R   November 19

Play in the Interface

Readings:
Martial Arts in Artificial Reality by H�m�l�inen et al
Recreation
CSCW at play: 'there' as a collaborative virtual environment by Barry Brown and Barek Bell
Dmitri Williams
ESP Game, Peek-a-Boom by Luis von Ahn

Week 14

T  November 24

Thanksgiving Break

 

R   November 26

Thanksgiving Break

Week 15

December 1

Readings for Projects

Readings:
The Dynamics of Mass Interaction by Whittaker et al
Talking in Circles: Designing A Spatially-Grounded Audioconferencing Environment by Rodenstein and Donath
Why CSCW Applications Fail: problems in the design and evaluation of organizational Interfaces by Jonathan Grudin

 

R   December 3

Readings for Projects
Send current project update

Readings:
The Small World Problem by Milgram
Comic Chat by Kurlander et al
Methodology Matters: Doing Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences by Joseph McGrath

Week 16

December 8

Final Project Presentations