Alan Dix - research topics

Architectures for collaborative work on the world wide web

This is on-going work with Devina Ramduny on the use of the web as an infra-structure for collaborative applications. This is being addressed at a conceptual level and as a basis for implementation. The work draws on previous analytic techniques for CSCW and also my previous work on implementing a distributed agent-based groupware infra-structure.

There are also links with work on versioning in CSCW and user interface temporal issues which drive this work..

See also the Bibliography of Event Papers by Adam Rifkin and Rohit Khare.

Some of my own relevant papers:

• A. Dix (1996).
  Challenges and Perspectives for Cooperative Work on the Web.
  ERCIM workshop on CSCW and the Web, Eds. U. Busbach, D. Kerr and K. Sikkel. Sankt Augustin, Germany, Arbeitspapiere der GMD 984, GMD/FIT, GMD/FIT, 6th-9th February 1996. pp. 143-157
  talk outline || full paper
• D. Ramduny and A. Dix (1997).
  Why, What, Where, When: Architectures for Co-operative work on the WWW.
  Proceedings of HCI'97, . Bristol, UK.
  abstract || full paper (compressed postscript, 468K) || full paper (PDF, 47K)
• D. Ramduny and A. Dix (1997).
  In the Right Place at the Right Time: Placement Options for Web-Based Architectures.
  (poster) Proceedings of ECSCW'97. Lancaster, UK.
• A. Dix (1997).
  Challenges for Cooperative Work on the Web: An analytical approach.
  Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing, 6 pp. 135-156.
  reprinted as ...
• A. Dix (1997).
  Challenges for Cooperative Work on the Web: An analytical approach.
  Groupware and the World Wide Web, Eds. R. Bentley, U. Busbach, D. Kerr and K. Sikkel. Dordrecht, Kluwer
• A. Kirby, P. Rayson, T. Rodden, I. Sommerville and A. Dix (1997).
  Versioning the Web.
  7th International Workshop on Software Configuration Management, Ed. R. Conradi. Boston, USA, pp. 163-173.
  (also available as CSEG/21/96 from Computing Department, Lancaster University - see my 1996 list)
• I. Sommerville, T. Rodden, P. Rayson, A. Kirby and A. Dix (1998).
  Supporting information evolution on the WWW.
  World Wide Web Journal, 1 pp. 45-54.
• D. Ramduny, A. Dix and T. Rodden (1998).
  Getting to Know: the design space for notification servers.
  Proceedings of CSCW'98. ACM Press. pp. 227-235
  abstract || draft paper (html) || ACM Digital Library (pdf)
• A. Dix (1998).
  The Active Web - Part 1.
  Interfaces, 38 pp. 18-21. Summer 1998.
  full paper
• A. Dix (1998).
  The Active Web - Part II.
  Interfaces, 39 pp. 22-25. Autumn 1998.
  full paper
• Alan Dix (1998).
  Finding Out - event discovery using status-event analysis
  Formal Aspects of Human Computer InteractionFAHCI98, Sheffield, 5th&6th September 1998.
  abstract || full paper (pdf) || full paper (compressed postscript)

• D. Clarke, A. Dix and F. Dix, Eds. (1999).
  Proceedings of 'The Active Web'.
  Staffordshire University, ISBN 1 897898 45 2.
  full online proceedings

• A. Dix (1999).
  Design of User Interfaces for the Web (invited paper),
  User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems UIDIS'99, Edinburgh 5th - 6th September 1999
  abstract || full paper (pdf)

• A. Dix and D. Clarke (1999).
  Active Web (report).
  SIGCHI Bulletin (in press), October 1999

• D. Ramduny and A. Dix (2002).
  Impedance Matching: When you need to know What.
  Proceedings of HCI2002 (in press)
  abstract and references || draft paper (pdf, 269K)

Other related work

• John F. Patterson, Mark Day and Jakov Kucan (1996).
  Notification servers for synchronous groupware
  Proceedings of CSCW'96. Boston USA. ACM Press pp. 122-129
  in ACM Digital Library
• Kevin Palfreyman and Tom Rodden
  A protocol for user awareness on the World Wide Web.
  Proceedings of CSCW'96. Boston USA. ACM Press pp. 130-139
  in ACM Digital Library