©2010 Masood Masoodian     My research interests are generally in the field of Human Computer Interaction and Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Within these fields, I am particularly interested in the following topics: study of human-to-human communication in computer supported collaborative work environments user-centred design, development, and evaluation of groupware applications group interaction via heterogeneous communication devices access to information using portable devices study of virtual communities My doctoral research focused on the investigation of the effectiveness of a range of communication media in supporting group interaction in real-time computer-based collaborative work. Since the completion of my Ph.D. I have been involved in several research projects, all of which have been in CSCW. The first of these projects aimed at designing a CSCW-based software development environment. My role in this research was to identify and evaluate currently available WWW tools which could provide for some of the CSCW requirements of a software development environment. I was also responsible for design and implementation of multi-user communication programs using the Java programming language. The second project was an Esprit Long-Term Research project called Magic Lounge. Magic Lounge was funded for three years (1997-2000) under the European Network of Intelligent Information Interfaces (i3) initiative. The objective of the Magic Lounge was to develop a virtual meeting environment for ordinary people who have little or no knowledge of the underlying communication technology. The motivations for using the Magic Lounge could range from sharing and exchange of ideas related to one's own hobbies, to participating in work-related professional activities. Development of the Magic Lounge system was based on user-centred design methodology with close involvement of real user communities. From a technical point of view, the goal of the Magic Lounge project was to develop intelligent communication services for a virtual meeting environment which could be accessed using any of a number of heterogeneous communication devices such as PC's, PDA's, Palmtops, and mobile telephones. Within the Magic Lounge project, I took part in the design, implementation and evaluation of a number of software prototypes. In particular, I was involved in the development of a group communication tool, which combined audio and textual chat to allow interaction between people with different types of communication devices. At present I am conducting research for two externally funded projects called LIDS (Large Interactive Display Surfaces) and CIG (Collaborative Information Gathering). My other research work includes COMAP (COntent MAPper) which deals with mapping the audio recordings of a remote collaborative meeting to the contents of its shared documents.