On this webpage you will find links to my publications and the projects I worked on while a student at the Media Lab (1999-2005). You can also download my PhD thesis, "Changing Small Group Interaction through Visual Reflections of Social Behavior."

For up-to-date information, check out www.joandimicco.com.

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publications (organized chronologically)

2006

JM DiMicco, KJ Hollenbach, A Pandolfo, W Bender. (2006) "The Impact of Increased Awareness while Face-to-Face." Special issue on Awareness Systems Design, Human-Computer Interaction Journal. (Accepted for publication February 2006.)

JM DiMicco, KJ Hollenbach, W Bender. (2006) "Using Visualizations to Review a Group's Interaction Dynamics." Extended Abstracts, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 2006.

JM DiMicco, KJ Hollenbach. (2006) "Visualization of Audio: A social tool for face-to-face groups." Social Visualization Workshop, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 2006.

2005

JM DiMicco. (2005) "Evaluating Collaboration Technology Using User-Centered Design and Input-Process-Output Methodologies." Workshop on User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Services for Human-Human Communication and Collaboration, International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2005), Trento, Italy, October 2005.

JM DiMicco. "Changing Small Group Interaction through Visual Reflections of Social Behavior," PhD Thesis, MIT Media Lab. May 2005.

2004

JM DiMicco, A Pandolfo, W Bender. "Influencing Group Participation with a Shared Display." ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2004). Chicago, IL, November 2004.

JM DiMicco. (2004) "Methodologies for Evaluating Co-Located Collaboration." Workshop on Methodologies for Evaluating Collaboration in Co-Located Environments, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2004), Chicago, IL, November 2004.

K Inkpen, R Mandryk, JM DiMicco, SD Scott. "Methodologies for Evaluating Collaboration in Co-Located Environments." Workshop at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2004). Chicago, IL, November 2004. (Workshop organizer)

MI Norton, JM DiMicco, R Caneel, D Ariely. AntiGroupWare and Second Messenger -- Simple Systems for Improving (And Avoiding) Meetings." BT Technology Journal. Vol 22, No 4, October, 2004.

JM DiMicco. "Designing Interfaces that Influence Group Processes." Doctoral Consortium Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems (CHI 2004), Vienna, Austria, April 2004.

JM DiMicco, W Bender. "Second Messenger: Increasing the Visibility of Minority Viewpoints with a Face-to-face Collaboration Tool." ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'04). Madeira, Portugal, January 2004.

2003

JM DiMicco, P Maes, A Greenwald. "Learning Curve: A Simulation-Based Approach to Dynamic Pricing." Special Issue on "Aspects of Internet Agent-based E-Business Systems," Journal of Electronic Commerce Research. Vol 3, Issues 3-4, pp. 245-276, 2003.

2002

JM DiMicco, V Lakshmipathy, AT Fiore, "Conductive Chat: Instant Messaging With a Skin Conductivity Channel." Poster Presentation, Conference on Computer Supported Coorperative Work (CSCW '02). New Orleans, LA, November 2002.

JM DiMicco. "Mobile Ad-hoc Voting." Workshop on Mobile Ad-hoc Collaboration, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2002), Minneapolis, MN, April 2002.

2001

JM DiMicco, A Greenwald, P Maes. "Dynamic Pricing Strategies under a Finite Time Horizon." Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC '01), Tampa, FL, October 2001.

J Morris, P Maes, A Greenwald. "Learning Curve: Analysis of an Agent Pricing Strategy Under Varying Conditions." Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2001), pp. 1135-1141, Las Vegas, NV, June 2001.

J Morris. "A Simulation-based Approach to Dynamic Pricing." Master's Thesis, MIT Media Lab. May 2001.

J Morris, P Maes. "Understanding Dynamic Pricing Agents." Software Demos, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2001), Montreal, Canada, May 2001.

J Morris, P Maglio. "When Buying On-line, Does Price Really Matter?" Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2001), Seattle, WA, April 2001.

2000

J Morris, P Ree, P Maes. "Sardine: Dynamic Seller Strategies in an Auction Marketplace." Proceedings of the Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC '00), Minneapolis, MN, October 2000.

J Morris, P Maes. "Sardine: An Agent-facilitated Airline Ticket Bidding System." Software Demos, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, June 2000.

J Youll, J Morris, R Krikorian, P Maes. "Impulse:Location-based Agent Assistance." Software Demos, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), Barcelona, Spain, June 2000.

J Morris, P Maes. "Negotiating Beyond the Bid Price." Workshop Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2000), The Hague, The Netherlands, April 2000.

Press

CNET News.com (June 2, 2006): Sun Labs pushes forward despite layoffs

Discover Magazine (Vol. 26, No. 03, March 2005): Let HAL Moderate Your Next Meeting

Frames, a bimonthly Media Lab publication (Aug/Sept 2004): Second Messenger: New Technology Improves Group Dynamics

PC World (May 11, 2004): What's Next for Consumer Gadgets? (see the very last sentence)




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media lab projects

Second Messenger	Joan Morris DiMicco, Walter Bender (2003-2005) My Phd research focused on understanding how different tools can help groups improve their interaction processes. The ultimate goal is to create tools that encourage groups to include a more diverse set of viewpoints in their discussions, in order to promote higher quality group decision-making. The interfaces I built as part of my PhD research use visualization to reveal social patterns within a group's face-to-face communication. The theory is that by providing information about social dynamics, a group will be able to reflect and improve upon its interaction patterns.
Conductive Chat	Joan Morris DiMicco, Andrew Fiore, Vidya Lakshmipathy (2002) Conductive Chat is an instant messenger client that incorporates your GSR (galvanic skin response) into the text you type, resulting in a text-based conversation enhanced with your emotional arousal.
Voting for Group Decisions	Joan Morris DiMicco, Dan Ariely (2001-2002) Whether it is voting for president or deciding from where the office should order lunch, group decision-making leaves people with varying degrees of satisfaction with the decision. One of the difficulties in current voting mechanisms is the inability to express complexities of opinions. This project works to introduce new voting mechanisms which will maximize individual satisfaction or social welfare.
Learning Curve	Joan Morris DiMicco, Pattie Maes (2000-2001, My Master's Thesis) In an electronic marketplace, where software agents make strategic decisions for buyers and sellers, how can a seller make sense of it all? My research uses a market simulator to study different agent selling strategies in an increasingly complex marketplace. My goal is to discover the relevant factors in determining successful market strategies and to build an interface to this system powering the seller in a dynamically priced market.
Sardine	Joan Morris DiMicco, Pattie Maes (1999-2001) The Sardine System presents a new model for airline ticket bidding, demonstrating our vision for interfaces that facilitate negotiation between buyers and sellers.
Impulse	Joan Morris, Jim Youll, Pattie Maes (1999-2001) Impulse explores a scenario in which e-commerce meets 'brick-and-mortar' commerce through a system of buying and selling agents representing individual buyers and sellers that engage in multi-parameter negotiation and run on wireless mobile devices.
ABP	Joan Morris, Martha Chang, Wilson Lee (2000) This class project was to design a family based messaging system for the home of the future, using the principles of FCE (Future Computing Environments).
Vicinity Chat	Joan Morris, Chris Lucas, Alexander De Reitzes, Judith Donath (2000) This project examines what happens at the boundary between the physical world and the virtual world when a traditional messaging interface from the virtual world is adapted to connect people in proximate location in the physical world.
StreetWise	Jim Youll, Joan Morris, Raffi Krikorian, Pattie Maes (2000) This projects presents an implementation of one aspect of the Impulse vision. Called Streetwise, it is a scenario demonstrating a mobile device using location-aware queries to digitally augment and explore the physical world.
InShop	Daniele De Francesco, Raffi C. Krikorian, Joan Morris, Jeffrey C. Mellen (2000) The high-level goal of this project is to create a community-oriented application using hand-held wireless devices. Specifically, this is an application for use in a grocery store which allows shoppers to swap cooking recipes based on who they are, what they've put in their shopping cart, and what they are looking at in the store.