Publications

Articles

James "Bo" Begole, John Tang, Randall Smith and Nicole Yankelovich, "Work rhythms: Analyzing visualizations of awareness histories of distributed groups" (ACM Digital Library), Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2002), New Orleans, LA, USA, Nov 16-20, 2002, ACM Press, NY, pp.334-343.

Mark Bilezikjian, John C. Tang, James "Bo" Begole, Nicole Yankelovich, "Exploring Web Browser History Comparisons" (ACM Digital Library), CHI 2002, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, short paper, Minneapolis, MN, April 20-25, 2002.

J. Tang, N. Yankelovich, J. Begole, M. Van Kleek, F. Li, and J. Bhalodia, "ConNexus to Awarenex: Extending awareness to mobile users" (PDF), CHI 2001, Seattle, Washington, March 31 - April 5, 2001.

N. Yankelovich, "Using Natural Dialogs as the Basis for Speech Interface Design." Submitted to MIT Press as a chapter for the upcoming book, Automated Spoken Dialog Systems, edited by Susann Luperfoy.

S. Weinschenk, "Interview with Nicole Yankelovich" in Designing Effective Speech Interfaces, edited by Susan Weinschenk and Dean T. Barker, Wiley, 2000.

J. Tang and N. Yankelovich, "Network Communities: Supporting distributed field organizations," Position paper for the Computer Supported Collaborative Work conference, CSCW 98, November, 1998.

C. Schmandt and N. Yankelovich, "Introduction to the special issue on speech as data," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 4, Number 1, 1997.

N. Yankelovich, "How do Users Know What to Say?", ACM Interactions, Vol. III, Number 6, November/December 1996.

F. Crabbe, P. Martin, S. Adams, E. Baatz, and N. Yankelovich, "SpeechActs: A Spoken Language Framework," (pdf version), IEEE Computer, Vol. 29, Number 7, July 1996.

N. Yankelovich and C. D. McLain, "Office Monitor" (PostScript version), CHI '96 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 14-18, 1996.

A. Mane, S. Boyce, D. Karis and N. Yankelovich, "Designing the User Interface for Speech Recognition Applications," CHI '96 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 14-18, 1996.

N. Yankelovich, G. A. Levow, and M. Marx, "Designing SpeechActs: Issues in Speech User Interfaces" (PostScript version), CHI '95 Proceedings, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, CO, May 7-11, 1995.

N. Yankelovich, "Talking vs. Taking: Speech Access to Remote Computers" (PostScript version), CHI '94 Conference Companion, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Boston, MA, April 24-28, 1994.

N. Yankelovich and E. Baatz, "SpeechActs: A Framework for Building Speech Applications" (PostScript version) AVIOS '94 Conference Proceedings, Conference of the American Voice Input/Output Society, San Jose, CA, September 20-23, 1994.

M. Palaniappan, N. Yankelovich, G. Fitzmaurice, A. Loomis, B. Haan, J. Coombs, and N. Meyrowitz, "The Envoy Framwork: An Open Architecture for Agents," ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 10, No. 3, July 1992.

N. Yankelovich, "From Electronic Books to Electronic Libraries: Revisiting Reading and Writing the Electronic Book, Hypermedia and Literary Studies, editors G. Landow and P. Delaney, MIT Press, 1991.

S. Jackson and N. Yankelovich. "Intermail: A Prototype Hypermedia Mail System," Third annual ACM conference proceedings on HYPERTEXT '91, San Antonio, TX, December 15 - 18, 1991.

N. Yankelovich, "Three Pieces of the Puzzle: Wide-area Hypermedia, Information Agents and On-line Reference Works," Psychological Science, Vol. 1, No. 6, November 1990.

M. Palaniappan, N. Yankelovich and M. Sawtelle. "Linking Active Anchors: A Stage in the Evolution of Hypermedia," Hypermedia, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1990.

T. Catlin, P. Bush and N. Yankelovich. "InterNote: Extending a Hypermedia Framework to Support Annotative Collaboration," Hypertext '89 Proceedings, November 1989.

K. Utting and N. Yankelovich. "Context and Orientation in Hypermedia Networks," ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems (TOIS), Vol. 7, No. 1, January 1989.

N. Yankelovich, B. Haan, N. Meyrowitz and S. Drucker. "Intermedia: The Concept and the Construction of a Seamless Information Environment," IEEE Computer, Vol. 21, No. 1, January 1988.

N. Yankelovich, L. N. Garrett, K. Smith and N. Meyrowitz, "Issues in Designing a Hypermedia Document System: The Intermedia Case Study," Learning Tomorrow: Multimedia in Education, The Journal of the Apple Education Advisory Council, Apple Computer, Inc., Spring 1987 and Interactive Multimedia: Visions of Multimedia for Developers, Educators & Information Providers, editors S. Ambron and K. Hooper, Microsoft Press, 1988.

N. Yankelovich, N. Meyrowitz and A. van Dam. "Reading and Writing the Electronic Book," IEEE Computer, Vol. 18, No. 10, October 1985. Reprinted in Hypermedia and Literary Studies, editors G. Landow and P. Delaney, MIT Press, 1991, and in Computers and Learning, editors Boyd-Barrett and Scanlon, Addison-Wesley Publishers Ltd, 1991.

Tutorials

N. Yankelovich and J. Lai, instructors. " Designing Speech User Interfaces," Proceedings of the CHI 98, Los Angeles, CA, April 18 - 23, 1998.

N. Yankelovich, instructor. " An Introduction to the Internet and How it Can be Used for Collaboration for K-12 Teachers," Proceedings of the ACM 1996 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Boston, MA, November 16 - 20, 1996.

Videos

N. Yankelovich and R. Tavilla, producers. "Sun SharedShell Tool," ACM 2000 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Video Program, Philadelphia, PA, December 2-6, 2000.

N. Yankelovich and R. Tavilla, producers. "SpeechActs: A Conversational Speech System," ACM Multimedia '95 Video Program, 1995. The video may be ordered from ACM (call 800-342-6626 and ask for the Multimedia '95 Video, item number 433954 or try ACM's on-line catalog)

N. Yankelovich, technical contributor. Starfire: A Vision of Future Computing, Sun Microsystems, 1994.

N. Yankelovich and P. Kahn, producers. Intermedia: A Retrospective, Brown University, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, 1990. Available through ACM.

N. Yankelovich, producer. Intermedia: From Linking to Learning, Brown University, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, 1988.

Hypertext Collections

N. Yankelovich, J. Tang, J. Begole, Sun Microsystems Laboratories' Network Communities Project web site.

N. Yankelovich. An Introduction to the Internet for Teachers web site.

N. Yankelovich. School Web Site Development Guide web site.

N. Yankelovich, editor and graphic designer. Lowell City Magnet School web site and Lowell Arts Magnet School web site.

N. Yankelovich, editor. Hypertext on Hypertext, HyperCard version of the July 1988 Communications of the ACM special issue on hypertext. ACM Press, July 1988.

Technical Reports

J. Tang, N. Yankelovich, and J. Begole, "ConNexus: Instant Messaging for the Workplace" (PDF), Network Communities Report, April 2000.

J. Tang, N. Yankelovich, and J. Begole, "SharedShell: A shared terminal for collaborative system administration, Network Communities Report, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, June 1999.

J. Tang and N.Yankelovich, "Designing to Support Distributed Collaboration," Network Communities Report, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, February 1999.

N. Yankelovich, et al, "Envoys: Helping Information Find Users," IRIS Technical Report 91-3, April 1991.

N. Yankelovich, T. Catlin and N. Meyrowitz. Summary Report - Annotating with Acetate: Hypermedia and Annotation in a Desktop Framework, report to US West Advanced Technologies, August 1990.

N. Yankelovich and P. Kahn. JOSIAH: Proposed Workstation User Interface Design (Part II of the Report of the On-line Catalogue User Interface Project), a Brown University Library/CIS/IRIS Joint Report, July 1990.

P. Bush, T. Catlin, E. Devinney and N. Yankelovich. Annotating with Acetate: Issues and User Interface Design, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship report, Brown University, January 3, 1990.

N. Yankelovich and P. Kahn. Hypermedia Bibliography, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University, October 1989.

(With the IRIS Component Software Team) Component Software: Integrated, Extensible Creation of Composite Documents, IRIS Technical Report 89-3, July 1989.

(With the IRIS Groupware Team) Groupware Issues: Hypermedia and Annotation in a Desktop Framework, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship report, Brown University, September 1988.

N. Yankelovich. Interim Report, Network of Scholar's Workstations in a University Environment: A New Medium for Research and Education, prepared for the Annenberg/CPB Project, January 15, 1987.

N. Meyrowitz, N. Yankelovich, et al, The Intermedia System: A Software Framework and Applications for Education and Research, Requirements, User Interface Design and System Design, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship report, Brown University, September 1985.

Grant Proposals

N. Meyrowitz, N. Yankelovich, and J. Coombs. "Memex 2000: Networked Hypermedia and Agents for Explicit and Implicit Collaboration," proposal to the National Science Foundation special initiative on Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology, April 1990.

N. Meyrowitz and N. Yankelovich. "Unleashing the Power of Hypermedia Systems: Creating a Collaborative Information Environment," proposal to US West Advanced Technologies Sponsored Research Program, 1988, renewed 1989 ($300K).

N. Yankelovich. "The Signifier: A General Tool for Editing and Creating Symbol Systems," proposal to the Inter-University Consortium for Educational Computing, 1985 ($20K).

W. Shipp, A. van Dam, N. Meyrowitz and N. Yankelovich. "Networks of Scholar's Workstations in a University Community: A New Medium for Research and Education," proposal to the Annenberg/CPB Project, 1984 - 1987 ($1.5 million).

Printed Documentation

(Author) SpeechActs Setup & Configuration Guide, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, March 1995.

(Author) SpeechActs Unified Grammar Lexicon and Language Description, version 1, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, March 1994.

(Editor) Intermedia User's Guide, Intermedia On-Site Coordinator's Guide, and Intermedia System Administrator's Guide (Alpha Release, Version 3.0), Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University, August 1988.

(Author) Intermedia User's Guide (Version 1.0), Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University, January 1986.

On-Line Documentation

(Author) Sun SharedShell User's Guide (Version 0.1). Network Communities, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, October 1999.

(Author) Document Search On-Line Help: Basic Searching, Search Options, Expanded Queries, and Directory Browsing (Alpha Release), Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University, April 1991.

(Author) Envoy On-Line Help: Defining New Missions, Envoy Mission Summary, Envoy Messages & Reports, and Envoy Options Dialog (Alpha Release), Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University, April 1991.