Steve Whittaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 7397233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Whittaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Whittaker |
| SIGNATURE | WHITTAKER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3893-2551 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The future of personal information management in the age of ubiquitous personal data
Conversational Fluency and Attitudes Towards Robot Pilots in Telepresence Robot-Mediated Interactions
In a controlled lab experiment, we compared how in-person and robot-mediated communicative settings affected attitudes towards communicators and discourse phenomena related to conversational negotiation. We used a mock interview within-participants experiment design where each participant (mock interviewee) experienced both types of communication with the same experimenter (mock interviewer). Despite communicating with the same person, participan…
Patterns of emotion-network dynamics are orthogonal to mood disorder status: An experience sampling investigation
Individuals differ markedly in how they experience the ebb and flow of emotions. In this study, we used daily experience sampling to examine whether these differences reflect the nature and presence of mood disorders or whether they can better be characterized as distinct dynamic emotion profiles that cut-across diagnostic boundaries. We followed 105 individuals in 2019-2020 with diagnoses of major depression, remitted major depression, bipolar d…
Alone and online: Understanding the relationships between social media, solitude, and psychological adjustment
Designing Personas for Expressive Robots: Personality in the New Breed of Moving, Speaking, and Colorful Social Home Robots
Imbuing robots with personality has been shown to be an effective design approach in HRI, promoting user trust and acceptance. We explore personality design in a non-anthropomorphic voice-assisted home robot. Our design approach developed three distinct robot personas: Butler, Buddy, and Sidekick, intended to differ in proactivity and emotional impact. Persona differences were signaled to users by a combination of humanoid (speech, intonation), a…
Psychological distance in mobile telepresence
Cats, Kids, and video calls: How working from home affects media self-presentation
KEYWORDS: Self-presentationpersonalityvideomedia theoryaffordancesaudiencesCOVIDstudentsoffice workersworking from homeHCI theorysocial theory, personal systemspersonal tools, collaboration toolscollaborative systems
What Does All This Data Mean for My Future Mood? Actionable Analytics and Targeted Reflection for Emotional Well-Being
We explore the Examined Life, informing the design of reflective systems to promote emotional well-being, a critical health issue. People now have increasingly rich, digital records of highly personal data about what they said, did, and felt in the past. But social science research shows that people have difficulty in tracking and regulating their emotions. New reflective technologies that promote constructive analysis of rich personal data poten…
Interaction design: What We Know and What We Need to Know
research-article Share on Interaction design: what we know and what we need to know Author: Steve Whittaker University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Santa CruzView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 20Issue 4July + August 2013 pp 38–42https://doi.org/10.1145/2486227.2486236Online:01 July 2013Publication History 5citation1,779DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations5Total Downloads1,779Last 12 Months345Last 6 weeks20 Get…
Productive Interrelationships between Collaborative Groups Ease the Challenges of Dynamic and Multi-Teaming
Geographic ‘Place’ and ‘Community Information’ Preferences
Supporting Collaborative Task Management in E-mail
mail is one of the most successful computer applications ever developed. Despite its success, it is now dogged by numerous problems. Users complain about feeling overwhelmed by the volume of messages they receive, they have difficulties too in organizing and managing their e-mail data but, most importantly, they have problems in using e-mail to manage collaborative tasks (Bellotti, Ducheneaut, Howard, & Smith, 2003; Balter, 1998, 2000; Mackay, 19…
Introduction to This Special Issue on Revisiting and Reinventing E-Mail
is a cognitive psychologist with interests in the application of cognitive science principles and methods to the design of systems for computer mediated communication, collaborative systems, information retrieval, and personal information management; he is Chair of Information Retrieval at University of Sheffield
People-to-People-to-Geographical-Places: The P3 Framework for Location-Based Community Systems
Things to Talk About When Talking About Things
This commentary reviews the existing research literature concerning support for talking about objects in mediated communication, drawing three conclusions: (a) speech alone is often sufficient for effective conversations; (b) visual information about work objects is generally more valuable than visual information about work participants; (c) disjoint visual perspectives can undermine communication processes. I then comment on the four papers in t…
NetWorkers and their Activity in Intensional Networks
Research alerts: The Character, Value, and Management of Personal Paper Archives
article Research alerts: the character, value, and management of personal paper archives Share on Authors: Steve Whittaker ATT Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ ATT Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJView Profile , Julia Hirschberg ATT Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ ATT Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 8Issue 4July 2001 pp 11–16https://doi.org/10.1145/379537.379541Published:01 July 2001 0citation521D…
Interaction and outeraction: Instant Messaging in Action
We discuss findings from an ethnographic study of instant messaging (IM) in the workplace and its implications for media theory. We describe how instant messaging supports a variety of informal communication tasks. We document the affordances of IM that support flexible, expressive communication. We describe some unexpected uses of IM that highlight aspects of communication which are not part of current media theorizing. They pertain to communica…
Let's Stop Pushing the Envelope and Start Addressing It: A Reference Task Agenda for HCI
We identify a problem with the process of research in the human-computer interaction (HCI) community-an overemphasis on "radical invention" at the price of achieving a common research focus. Without such a focus, it is difficult to build on previous work, to compare different interaction techniques objectively, and to make progress in developing theory. These problems at the research level have implications for practice, too; as researchers we of…
It's not what you know it's who you know
We discuss our ethnographic research on personal social networks in the workplace, arguing that traditional institutional resources are being replaced by resources that workers mine from their own networks. Social networks are key sources of labor and information in a rapidly transforming economy characterized by less institutional stability and fewer reliable corporate resources. The personal social network is fast becoming the only sensible alt…
Video-as-data: Technical and social aspects of a collaborative multimedia application
Conversations Over Video Conferences: An Evaluation of the Spoken Aspects of Video-Mediated Communication
Recent trends toward telecommuting, mobile work, and wider distribution of the work force, combined with reduced technology costs, have made video communications more attractive as a means of supporting informal remote interaction. In the past, however, video communications have never gained widespread acceptance. Here we identify possible reasons for this by examining how the spoken characteristics of video-mediated communication differ from fac…
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Conversations Over Video Conferences: An Evaluation of the Spoken Aspects of Video-Mediated Communication
Recent trends toward telecommuting, mobile work, and wider distribution of the work force, combined with reduced technology costs, have made video communications more attractive as a means of supporting informal remote interaction. In the past, however, video communications have never gained widespread acceptance. Here we identify possible reasons for this by examining how the spoken characteristics of video-mediated communication differ from fac…
Video-as-data: Technical and social aspects of a collaborative multimedia application
Interaction and outeraction: Instant Messaging in Action
We discuss findings from an ethnographic study of instant messaging (IM) in the workplace and its implications for media theory. We describe how instant messaging supports a variety of informal communication tasks. We document the affordances of IM that support flexible, expressive communication. We describe some unexpected uses of IM that highlight aspects of communication which are not part of current media theorizing. They pertain to communica…
Let's Stop Pushing the Envelope and Start Addressing It: A Reference Task Agenda for HCI
We identify a problem with the process of research in the human-computer interaction (HCI) community-an overemphasis on "radical invention" at the price of achieving a common research focus. Without such a focus, it is difficult to build on previous work, to compare different interaction techniques objectively, and to make progress in developing theory. These problems at the research level have implications for practice, too; as researchers we of…
It's not what you know it's who you know
We discuss our ethnographic research on personal social networks in the workplace, arguing that traditional institutional resources are being replaced by resources that workers mine from their own networks. Social networks are key sources of labor and information in a rapidly transforming economy characterized by less institutional stability and fewer reliable corporate resources. The personal social network is fast becoming the only sensible alt…
Research alerts: The Character, Value, and Management of Personal Paper Archives
article Research alerts: the character, value, and management of personal paper archives Share on Authors: Steve Whittaker ATT Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ ATT Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJView Profile , Julia Hirschberg ATT Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ ATT Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 8Issue 4July 2001 pp 11–16https://doi.org/10.1145/379537.379541Published:01 July 2001 0citation521D…
NetWorkers and their Activity in Intensional Networks
Things to Talk About When Talking About Things
This commentary reviews the existing research literature concerning support for talking about objects in mediated communication, drawing three conclusions: (a) speech alone is often sufficient for effective conversations; (b) visual information about work objects is generally more valuable than visual information about work participants; (c) disjoint visual perspectives can undermine communication processes. I then comment on the four papers in t…
People-to-People-to-Geographical-Places: The P3 Framework for Location-Based Community Systems
Supporting Collaborative Task Management in E-mail
mail is one of the most successful computer applications ever developed. Despite its success, it is now dogged by numerous problems. Users complain about feeling overwhelmed by the volume of messages they receive, they have difficulties too in organizing and managing their e-mail data but, most importantly, they have problems in using e-mail to manage collaborative tasks (Bellotti, Ducheneaut, Howard, & Smith, 2003; Balter, 1998, 2000; Mackay, 19…
Introduction to This Special Issue on Revisiting and Reinventing E-Mail
is a cognitive psychologist with interests in the application of cognitive science principles and methods to the design of systems for computer mediated communication, collaborative systems, information retrieval, and personal information management; he is Chair of Information Retrieval at University of Sheffield
Geographic ‘Place’ and ‘Community Information’ Preferences
Productive Interrelationships between Collaborative Groups Ease the Challenges of Dynamic and Multi-Teaming
Interaction design: What We Know and What We Need to Know
research-article Share on Interaction design: what we know and what we need to know Author: Steve Whittaker University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Santa CruzView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 20Issue 4July + August 2013 pp 38–42https://doi.org/10.1145/2486227.2486236Online:01 July 2013Publication History 5citation1,779DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations5Total Downloads1,779Last 12 Months345Last 6 weeks20 Get…
What Does All This Data Mean for My Future Mood? Actionable Analytics and Targeted Reflection for Emotional Well-Being
We explore the Examined Life, informing the design of reflective systems to promote emotional well-being, a critical health issue. People now have increasingly rich, digital records of highly personal data about what they said, did, and felt in the past. But social science research shows that people have difficulty in tracking and regulating their emotions. New reflective technologies that promote constructive analysis of rich personal data poten…
Alone and online: Understanding the relationships between social media, solitude, and psychological adjustment
Designing Personas for Expressive Robots: Personality in the New Breed of Moving, Speaking, and Colorful Social Home Robots
Imbuing robots with personality has been shown to be an effective design approach in HRI, promoting user trust and acceptance. We explore personality design in a non-anthropomorphic voice-assisted home robot. Our design approach developed three distinct robot personas: Butler, Buddy, and Sidekick, intended to differ in proactivity and emotional impact. Persona differences were signaled to users by a combination of humanoid (speech, intonation), a…
Psychological distance in mobile telepresence
Cats, Kids, and video calls: How working from home affects media self-presentation
KEYWORDS: Self-presentationpersonalityvideomedia theoryaffordancesaudiencesCOVIDstudentsoffice workersworking from homeHCI theorysocial theory, personal systemspersonal tools, collaboration toolscollaborative systems
Patterns of emotion-network dynamics are orthogonal to mood disorder status: An experience sampling investigation
Individuals differ markedly in how they experience the ebb and flow of emotions. In this study, we used daily experience sampling to examine whether these differences reflect the nature and presence of mood disorders or whether they can better be characterized as distinct dynamic emotion profiles that cut-across diagnostic boundaries. We followed 105 individuals in 2019-2020 with diagnoses of major depression, remitted major depression, bipolar d…
Conversational Fluency and Attitudes Towards Robot Pilots in Telepresence Robot-Mediated Interactions
In a controlled lab experiment, we compared how in-person and robot-mediated communicative settings affected attitudes towards communicators and discourse phenomena related to conversational negotiation. We used a mock interview within-participants experiment design where each participant (mock interviewee) experienced both types of communication with the same experimenter (mock interviewer). Despite communicating with the same person, participan…
The future of personal information management in the age of ubiquitous personal data
Computer Science (21 works) · Psychology (14 works) · World Wide Web (10 works) · Personal Information Management and User Behavior (9 works) · Human–computer interaction (8 works) · Team Dynamics and Performance (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Multimedia (6 works) · Usability and User Interface Design (6 works)