Essays, workshop-related materials, and a few drafts

This page contains links to a lot of unpublished material, or at least hard to find publications like workshop reports and position papers. *'d links are the best of category, IMO..

Essays (for fun)

Essays (how to)

How to design a presentation on design

Essays (Technology related)

On the HCI and interaction design fields
*Theory, Theory (a poem on the role and state of theory in HCI)
Design as Storytelling (about 'process' interaction design)

On Telework
*On the Experience of Remote Meetings
Some Notes on Telework
A Teleworker's Reflections (ECSCW '01 Position Paper)

Other reflections on technology
*Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls [pdf] (published in CACM,but still a fun read)
The World Wide Web as Social Hypertext
Reflections on the Transformation of Email

The following essays were written for a course on genre theory, and will not be of interest to most...
*The Rising Digital Tide (essay - genre theory)
Genre Blending (essay - genre theory)
Image as Workplace (essay - genre theory)
How to Do Things with Genre (essay - genre theory)
Theories as Genres (essay - genre theory)
Appropriable Technology (essay -genre theory)

Workshop Related: Reports and Position Papers

Related to the Group 2006 workshop on "Sustaining Community – Incentive Mechanisms in Online Systems.
This 5 page workshop report [pdf]. discusses incentive mechanisms in eight online communities – from Wikipedia and RePEc to Google Answers and Comtella – and makes a start at coming to grips with them. Also see jellis.net/research/group2005/ for more information about the workshop.

Related to the CHI 2002 Discourse Architectures Workshop
Discourse Architectures (CHI '02 Workshop Description and Agenda)
All Discourse Architectures Position Papers (CHI '02 Workshop)
Discourse Architectures CFP (CHI02 Workshop CFP)

Related to the HICSS Persistent Conversation Workshop and Minitrack Series
HICSS39 Persistent Conversation CFP
HICSS Persistent Conversation description and history, with links to all papers

Babble: Supporting Conversation in the Workplace (Position Paper)
A Teleworker's Reflections (ECSCW '01 Position Paper)

Dealing with Community Data [pdf] (CSCW 2000 Workshop Report)

Various Drafts

In a Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Construction and Co-Evolution of Object and Personal Identity" [pdf]
This is a draft and somewhat rough. Abstract: "We analyze the co-construction of identity - of objects, collections, people and institutions - by collectors of early American glass. We define intrinsic and extrinsic features of identity; and we discuss the social and institutional mechanisms involved in establishing and vetting identity, as well as pathologies that result from their failure."

Silence, Murmurs and Applause: Reflections on Expressions of Collections" [pdf].
A 4-page position paper submitted to the workshop on "Subtle Expressivity in Characters and Robots," which argues that groups may be said to have analogs of facial expressions in their collective behavior (e.g. applause) and discussing how to design 'expressions' for online groups.

The Design of Loops: A Web-Based Environment forPersistent Conversation and Community
A substantially new version of a paper on Loops, the web-based succsessor to the Babble system

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