This section does not exhaust the research background, but it includes some selected interesting directions. More to come up soon.

MIT- Sociable Media Group

Particularly interesting research group on design for mediated social interaction. Make sure you see the papers & projects sections.
http://smg.media.mit.edu

Last visited on 12/06/02

Social Computing at IBM

Tom Erickson's very interesting research group. Publications on 'social translucence', or how to make social cues and activity visible:
http://www.pliant.org/...
Also see the group's page... http://www.research.ibm.com/....

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Paper on Presence

An interesting approach, distinguishing between social presence and telepresence research in an attempt to define social presence in mediated communication.
Biocca et al, 2001.
http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu...

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Geonotes- Digital Graffiti

GeoNotes allows people to attach virtual notes to real world locations using positioning technology. A research project of the Swedish Insitute of Computer Science.
http://geonotes.sics.se/

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