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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Eliciting and focusing geographic volunteer work
Open content communities such as wikis derive their value from the work done by users. However, a key challenge is to elicit work that is sufficient and focused where needed. We ...
Reid Priedhorsky, Mikhil Masli, Loren G. Terveen
ECTEL
2007
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
E-Learning on the Social Semantic Information Sources
Abstract. E-Learning grows on the fertile soil of the Internet technologies; it fails, however, to reach their full potential. With new, emerging technologies of the second generat...
Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Adam Gzella, Jaroslaw Dobr...
WIKIS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 days ago
Herding the cats: the influence of groups in coordinating peer production
Peer production systems rely on users to self-select appropriate tasks and “scratch their personal itch”. However, many such systems require significant maintenance work, whic...
Aniket Kittur, Bryan A. Pendleton, Robert E. Kraut
GROUP
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
Traditional activities change in surprising ways when computermediated communication becomes a component of the activity system. In this descriptive study, we leverage two perspec...
Susan L. Bryant, Andrea Forte, Amy Bruckman
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Coordinating tasks on the commons: designing for personal goals, expertise and serendipity
How is work created, assigned, and completed on large-scale, crowd-powered systems like Wikipedia? And what design principles might enable these federated online systems to be mor...
Michel Krieger, Emily Margarete Stark, Scott R. Kl...