Linda Stone co-founded and directed the Virtual Worlds (now Social Computing Group) in Microsoft Research in 1994. This research group focused on improving online human social interactions and continues to do this work today. Stone initiated and directed a variety of projects including HutchWorld, PhotoStory and V-Chat. See ContinuousPartialAttention.

	* http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/SCS2004/speakers.aspx?#lindastone