| 2009 | CHI | Measuring the impact of third place attachment on the adoption of a place-based community technology. | Shelly Farnham, Joseph F. McCarthy, Yagnesh Patel, Sameer Ahuja, Daniel Norman, William R. Hazlewood, Josh Lind |
| 2008 | CSCW | The context, content & community collage: sharing personal digital media in the physical workplace. | Joseph F. McCarthy, Ben Congleton, F. Maxwell Harper |
| 2007 | RecSys | The challenges of recommending digital selves in physical spaces. | Joseph F. McCarthy |
| 2005 | CHI | Digital backchannels in shared physical spaces: experiences at an academic conference. | Joseph F. McCarthy, danah michele boyd |
| 2004 | CSCW | Digital backchannels in shared physical spaces: attention, intention and contention. | Joseph F. McCarthy, danah boyd, Elizabeth F. Churchill, William G. Griswold, Elizabeth Lane Lawley, Melora Zaner |
| 2004 | CSCW | Augmenting the social space of an academic conference. | Joseph F. McCarthy, David W. McDonald, Suzanne Soroczak, David H. Nguyen, Al Mamunur Rashid |
| 2002 | CHI | Promoting awareness of work activities through peripheral displays. | Elaine M. Huang, Joe Tullio, Tony J. Costa, Joseph F. McCarthy |
| 2000 | CHI | Active environments: sensing and responding to groups of people. | Joseph F. McCarthy |
| 2000 | CSCW | MUSICFX: an arbiter of group preferences for computer supported collaborative workouts. | Joseph F. McCarthy, Theodore D. Anagnost |
| 1999 | AAAI | A Multi-Agent System for Meting Out Influence in an Intelligent Environment. | M. V. Nagendra Prasad, Joseph F. McCarthy |
| 1999 | ISWC | Situated Computing: Bridging the Gap between Intention and Action. | Anatole Gershman, Joseph F. McCarthy, Andrew E. Fano |
| 1998 | CSCW | MusicFX: An Arbiter of Group Preferences for Computer Aupported Collaborative Workouts. | Joseph F. McCarthy, Theodore D. Anagnost |
| 1995 | IJCAI | Using Decision Trees for Coreference Resolution. | Joseph F. McCarthy, Wendy G. Lehnert |
| 1993 | MuC | UMass/Hughes: description of the CIRCUS system used for MUC-5. | Wendy G. Lehnert, Joseph F. McCarthy, Stephen Soderland, Ellen Riloff, Claire Cardie, Jon Peterson, Fangfang Feng, Charles Dolan, Seth Goldman |
| 1992 | MuC | University of Massachusetts: MUC-4 test results and analysis. | Wendy G. Lehnert, Claire Cardie, David Fisher, Joseph F. McCarthy, Ellen Riloff, Stephen Soderland |
| 1992 | MuC | University of Massachusetts: description of the CIRCUS system as used for MUC-4. | Wendy G. Lehnert, Claire Cardie, David Fisher, Joseph F. McCarthy, Ellen Riloff, Stephen Soderland |