1. The document discusses several research goals around understanding interruptions from email notifications, interorganizational coordination practices, socialization tactics used in online communities, aspects of closeness achieved through video communication, family practices around video chatting, designing family archiving devices, and collaborative information sharing among healthcare providers. 2. Key research questions explored include how disruptive email notifications are, challenges with interorganizational coordination, factors that enhance newcomer commitment to online communities, and how family archiving devices can impact existing family practices. 3. One study aims to examine how digital technologies meet survival and social needs for homeless people.

1. Research Questions and
Goals
examples

2. Email notifications: Goal
to understand how interruptions caused by
notifications influence users’ focus on
ongoing tasks and to contrast this with task
focus if notifications are turned off.

3. Email notifications RQs
1.How disruptive are email notifications in
their role of providing information awareness
to users? Does this disruption reduce with
notifications turned off?
2.Following a period of time with notifications
turned off, will users perceive the benefits of
minimizing the potential disruption they cause
and leave them off?

4. Interorganizational
Coordination: Goal
to characterize current interorganizational
coordination practices and challenges, and
identify opportunities for technology to
support cross-organizational information
sharing.

5. Interorganizational
Coordination: RQs
What technologies are organizations currently
using to support coordination and awareness
with other organizations
What are the challenges in doing so?
How is such coordination and awareness
information exchanged?
What are the factors preventing the production
and use of a directory of organizations?

6. WikiProjects
what kinds of socialization tactics are used in
online communities?
1.what kinds of socialization tactics enhance
newcomers’ commitment to these
communities?

7. Video-Communication & Closeness
We wish however, to delve deeper to
explore what it might mean for one to “feel
closer” to somebody via video, through what
practices this is achieved and what forms this
closeness takes. We wish to understand
aspects of “closeness” in video
communication such that we might, derive
ways of refining and improving upon the
current VMC experience, but also potentially,
to open up avenues of exploration for new
forms of communications technology.

8. Making Love: Families & video chat
we study the practices around videochat for
a family as a whole, including the remote
relatives on the other end of the line.

9. Tabletop Family Archive
One goal of our research program in the
family archiving space is to design and build
a family archiving device, or set of devices,
based on a deep understanding of current
archiving practices in the home, and through
a series of deployments in real households.

10. Tabletop Family Archive
In this paper, however, our focus is on family
practices, and how a device which offers
novel and open interaction possibilities can
highlight, disrupt, change, or otherwise
impact existing practices.

11. Collaborative Info
Sharing
We examined the collaborative information
seeking practices of healthcare providers in a
hospital Emergency Department (ED) in order
to gain a conceptual understanding of
collaborative sensemaking.

12. Homeless Technology Use
... [to examine] the ways digital technologies
mediate survival and social needs for
homeless people