Persistent Conversation:
History and Paper Downloads

Getting access to the papers

HICSS papers are supposed to be free to everyone via the IEEE/HICSS digital library. However, IEEE has changed (and perhaps continues to change) their links, so links may work, partially work, or not work at all.

It may well be easier to just go to scholar.google.com and search there.

2010: Persistent Conversation papers and authors

For papers go to the 2010 HICSS IEEE Digital Library and use command-F to search for the paper by title (if this fails, see the note at the top of the page)

Artifacts as Instant Messaging Buddies,
by Saul Greenberg, Stephen Voida, Nathan Stehr, and Kimberly Tee
Engaging the Periphery for Visual Communication on Mobile Phones,
by Lisa Cowan, Louise Barkhuus, William Griswold, and Jim Hollan
Not too long to read: The tldr Interface for Exploring and Navigating Large-Scale Discussion Spaces,
by Srikanth Narayan, and Coye Cheshire
Who’s right and who writes: People, profiles, contacts, and replies in online dating,
by Andrew Fiore, Lindsay Shaw Taylor, Xiaomeng Zhong, G.A. Mendelsohn, and Coye Cheshire
Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter,
by danah boyd, Scott Golder and Gilad Lotan

2009: Persistent Conversation papers and authors

For papers go to the 2009 HICSS IEEE Digital Library and use command-F to search for the paper by title (if this fails, see the note at the top of the page)

‘I am a black cat, letting day come and go’: Multimodal Conversations in a Poetry Workshop,
by Ruy Cervantes, Jahmeilah Richardson, and Bonnie Nardi.
Rejection in a Gay Chat Room,
by Rodney Jones
Fast Talking, Fast Shooting: Text Chat in an Online First-Person Game,
by Susan C. Herring, Daniel Kutz, John Paolillo, and Asta Zelenkauskaite.
Beyond Microblogging: Conversation and Collaboration via Twitter,
by Courtenay Honeycutt and Susan C. Herring.
Signs: Increasing Expression and Clarity in Instant Messaging,
by Aaron Zinman and Judith Donath.
Social Visualization of Health Messages,
by Brant Chee, Karrie Karahalios, and Bruce Schatz.

2008: Persistent Conversation papers and authors

For papers go to the 2008 HICSS IEEE Digital Library and search for "Persistent Conversation" (if this fails, see the note at the top of the page)

Television-Mediated Conversation: Coherence in Italian iTV SMS Chat
Asta Zelenkauskaite and Susan C. Herring
Cues to Deception in Online Chinese Groups
Lina Zhou and Yu-wei Sung
Communicators' Perceptions of Social Presence as a Function of Avatar Realism in Small Display Mobile Communication Devices
Sin-Hwa Kang, James H. Watt and Sasi Kanth Ala
Social Exchange Online: Public Conversations in the Blogosphere
Michael A, Stefanone and Chyng-Yang Jang
Exploring the Corporate Blogosphere: A Taxonomy for Research and Practice
Nicholas S. Lockwood and Alan R. Dennis
Online Gestures: Icon Use by Fan Communities on LiveJournal
Claudia Rebaza
Venice, California and World of Warcraft: Persistence and Ephemerality in Playful Spaces
Silvia Lindtner and Bonnie Nardi

2007: Persistent Conversation papers and authors (if this fails, see the note at the top of the page)

[public] Entire track in the IEEE/HICSS Digital Library -- scroll down to the Persistent Conversation minitrack.
[access via IEEE library ] Visual Conversation Styles in Web Communities
by David W. McDonald
[access via IEEE library] Colin Mochrie vs. Jesus H. Christ: Messages about Masculinities and Fame in Online Video Conversations
by Lori Kendall
[public] Interactive Community Bulletin Boards as Conversational Hubs and Sites for Playful Visual Repartee
by Elizabeth F. Churchill and Les Nelson
[public] Juggling Work Among Multiple Projects and Partners
by Peter Scupelli, Susan R. Fussell, Sara Kiesler, Pablo Quinones, and Gail Kusbit
[public] Multiplex Conversations Afforded by Technology
by Therese Örnberg Berglund
[access via IEEE library ] Conversational Coherence in Instant Messaging and Getting Work Done
by Stephanie L. Woerner, JoAnne Yates, and Wanda J. Orlikowski
[public] ** Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia
Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Jesse Kriss, and Frank van Ham
[public] Bridging and Persistence in Sustained, Collaborative Problem Solving Online
Johann Sarmiento and Gerry Stahl
[public] Conversation Clock: Visualizing Audio Patterns in Co-Located Groups
Tony Bergstrom and Karrie Karahalios
[public] Learning Conversations in World of Warcraft
Bonnie A. Nardi, Stella Ly, and Justin Harris
[public] Using Foreign Forums
Yuri Takhteyev
[public]* Language Networks on LiveJournal
Susan C. Herring, John C. Paolillo, Irene Ramos-Vielba, Inna Kouper, Elijah Wright, Sharon Stoerger, Lois Ann Scheidt, and Benjamin Clark
[access via IEEE library ] Corporate Blogging: Building Community through Persistent Digital Talk
Anne Jackson, JoAnne Yates, and Wanda Orlikowski

** Best paper award for Digital Documents and Media track for 2007.

2006: Persistent Conversation papers and authors

[ieee] Entire track in the IEEE/HICSS Digital Library -- scroll down to the Persistent Conversation minitrack.
[public] Enterprise Knowledge Management and Emerging Technologies, by Jonathan Grudin
[public] Use of SMS in Office Environments, by Gunnvald B. Svendsen, Bente Evjemo, and Jan A. K. Johnsen

access via IEEE library

Making Conversations Persistent Through Computer Mediation: Coordination in a Safety-Critical Domain

[public] Representations and Metaphors for the Structure of Synchronous Multimedia Collaboration within Task-Oriented, Time-Constrained Distributed Teams, by John M. Linebarger, Andrew J. Scholand, and Mark A. Ehlen
[public] Remembrance of Things Past: Using Maps and Routes to Navigate through Virtual Environment Experiences, by Gustav Verhulsdonck and Clinton Jeffery
[access via IEEE library ] CrystalChat: Visualizing Personal Chat History, by Annie Tat and Sheelagh Carpendale
[public] Swarm: Hyper Awareness, Micro Coordination, and Smart Convergence through Mobile Group Text Messaging, by Shelly Farnham and Pedram Keyani
** [public] You Are Who You Talk To: Detecting Roles in Usenet Newsgroups, by Danyel Fisher, Marc Smith, and Howard T. Welser
[public] Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster, danah boyd and Jeffrey Heer
[public] Multichat: Persistent, Text-as-you-type Messaging in a Web Browser for Fluid Multi-Person Interaction and Collaboration, by Jonathan Schull, Mike Axelrod and Larry Quinsland

** Best paper award for Digital Documents and Media track for 2006.

2005: Persistent Conversation papers and authors

[ieee] Entire track: Digital Documents and Media -- scroll down to the Persistent Conversation minitrack papers
[ieee] Persistent Conversation: A Dialgo between Research and Design [minitrack introduction]
by Thomas Erickson and Susan Herring
[ieee] Beyond Personal Webpublishing: An Exploratory Study of Conversational Blogging Practices,
by Lilia Efimova and Aldo de Moor
[ieee] Conversations in the Blogosphere: A Social Network Analysis "from the Bottom Up"
by Susan C. Herring, Inna Kouper, John C. Paolillo, Lois Ann Scheidt, Michael Tyworth, Peter Welsch, Elijah Wright and Ning Yu
[ieee] NusEye: Visualizing Network Structure to Support Navigation of Aggregated Content,
by Brian M. Dennis and Azzari Callier Jarrett
[ieee] Leading Conversations: Communication Behaviours of Emergent Leaders in Virtual Teams,
by Fay Sudweeks and Simeon J. Simoff
[ieee] Email Chronemics: Unobtrusive Profiling of Response Times,
by Yoram M. Kalman and Sheizaf Rafaeli
[ieee] Cohesion and Reference in English Chatroom Discourse,
by Carlos M. Nash
[ieee] Augmenting Online Conversation through Automated Discourse Tagging,
by Hannes Vilhjalmsson
[ieee] Digital Photos as Conversational Anchors,
by Ryan Sit and James D. Hollan

2004: Persistent Conversation papers and authors

[ieee] Entire track: Digital Documents and Media -- scroll down to the Persistent Conversation minitrack papers
[ieee] Persistent Conversation: A Dialog between Research and Design [minitrack introduction]
by Thomas Erickson and Susan Herring
** [ieee] Newsgroup Crowds and AuthorLines: Visualizing the Activity of Individuals in Conversational Cyberspaces,
by Ferndanda B. Viégas and Marc Smith.
[ieee] Wallop: Designing Social Software for Co-located Social Networks,
by Shelly Farnham, Sean Uberoi Kelly, Will Portnoy and Jordan L. K. Schwartz.
[ieee] Digital Artifacts for Remembering and Storytelling: PostHistory and Social Network Fragments,
by Fernanda B. Viégas, danah boyd, David H. Nguyen, Jeffrey Potter and Judith Donath.
[ieee] The Value of Persistence: A Study of the Creation, Ordering and Use of Conversation Archives by a Knowledge Worker,
by Christine A. Halverson.
[ieee] Temporal Properties of Turn-Taking and Turn-Packaging in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication,
by Claude G. Cech and Sherri L. Condon.
[ieee] Speech Act Profiling: A Probabilistic Method for Analyzing Persistent Conversations and Their Participants,
by Douglas P. Twitchell.and Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr.
[ieee] Designing for Deep Conversation in a Scenarios-based Learning Environment,
[ieee] Coherence and Interactivity in Text-based Group Discussions around Web Documents,
by Kerstin Severinson Eklundh and Henrry Rodriguez

** Best paper award for Digital Documents track for 2004.

2003- not held

Persistent Conversation: History and Paper Downloads