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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: the CHI is the limit table of contents

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pages: 9 - 16

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:0-201-48559-1

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Fernanda B. Viégas	MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
Judith S. Donath	MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Although current online chat environments provide new opportunities for communication, they are quite constrained in their ability to convey many important pieces of social information, ranging from the number of participants in a conversation to the subtle nuances of expression that enrich face to face speech. In this paper we present Chat Circles, an abstract graphical interface for synchronous conversa-tion. Here, presence and activity are made manifest by changes in color and form, proximity-based filtering intuitively breaks large groups into conversational clusters, and the archives of a conversation are made visible through an integrated history interface. Our goal in this work is to create a richer environment for online discussions.

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