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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
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Think different: increasing online community participation using uniqueness and group dissimilarity
Online communities can help people form productive relationships. Unfortunately, this potential is not always fulfilled: many communities fail, and designers don't have a sol...
Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Lor...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 5 days ago
Avaaj Otalo: a field study of an interactive voice forum for small farmers in rural India
In this paper we present the results of a field study of Avaaj Otalo (literally, “voice stoop”), an interactive voice application for small-scale farmers in Gujarat, India. T...
Neil Patel, Deepti Chittamuru, Anupam Jain, Paresh...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
How oversight improves member-maintained communities
Online communities need regular maintenance activities such as moderation and data input, tasks that typically fall to community owners. Communities that allow all members to part...
Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Sara B. Kiesler, Loren...
HICSS
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Distributed Knowledge Construction in an Online Community of Inquiry
This paper examines sustained, socially-situated engagement in online learning communities. We propose three levels of engagement that are examined through an empirical study of j...
James Waters, Susan Gasson