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== Definition ==

* Babble is a chat-based [[knowledge management]] system. It also implements ideas from [[social computing]].

== Links ==

[http://www.visi.com/%7Esnowfall/index.html Tom Erickson Home Page]
[http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/SocialComputing/SCGpapers.htm IBM Social Computing Group Papers]

== References ==

* Thomas Erickson and Mark R. Laff, The Design of the 'Babble' Timeline: A Social Proxy for Visualizing Group Activity over Time. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center [http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/Timeline.html HMTL]

* Bradner, E., Kellogg, W. A. and Erickson, T. "Babble: Supporting Conversation in the Workplace" [Paper for the CSCW 98 Workshop "Designing Virtual Communities for Work"], Fall 1998. SIGGROUP Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 3, December, 1998, pp 8-9. ACM Press. [http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/SocialComputing/Papers/Babble.CSCW98.workshop.htm HTML]

* Erin Bradner, Wendy A. Kellogg and T. Erickson, The Adoption and Use of 'Babble': A Field Study of Chat in the Workplace, [http://www.research.ibm.com/SocialComputing/Papers/AdoptionOfBabble.htm HTML] preprint for The Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (ECSCW), September, 1999.

* Erickson, T., Smith, D. N., Kellogg, W. A., Laff, M. R., Richards, J. T., and Bradner, E. "Socially Translucent Systems: Social Proxies, Persistent Conversation, and the Design of 'Babble.'" In Human Factors in Computing Systems: The Proceedings of CHI '99. ACM Press, 1999. [http://www.research.ibm.com/SocialComputing/Papers/SociallyTranslucentSystemsACM99.htm HTML].

* Thomas Erickson and Wendy A. Kellogg, Knowledge Communities: Online Environments for Supporting Knowledge Management and its Social Context, Sharing Expertise: Beyond Knowledge Management IN Ackerman, Mark, Volkmar Pipek, and Volker Wulf (eds.) Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2003, pp. 299-326[http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/KnowCommunities.html HTML preprint] - [http://www.visi.com/%7Esnowfall/KnowCommunities.pdf PDF Preprint].

[[Category:Knowledge and idea management]]