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CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The effects of diversity on group productivity and member withdrawal in online volunteer groups
The “wisdom of crowds” argument emphasizes the importance of diversity in online collaborations, such as open source projects and Wikipedia. However, decades of research on di...
Jilin Chen, Yuqing Ren, John Riedl
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 days ago
Socializing volunteers in an online community: a field experiment
Although many off-line organizations give their employees training, mentorship, a cohort and other socialization experiences that improve their retention and productivity, online ...
Rosta Farzan, Robert Kraut, Aditya Pal, Joseph A. ...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 days ago
Organizing without formal organization: group identification, goal setting and social modeling in directing online production
A challenge for many online production communities is to direct their members to accomplish tasks that are important to the group, even when these tasks may not match individual m...
Haiyi Zhu, Robert Kraut, Aniket Kittur
GROUP
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
The effects of group composition on decision quality in a social production community
Online social production communities allow efficient construction of valuable and high-quality information sources. To be successful, community members must be effective at collab...
Shyong K. Lam, Jawed Karim, John Riedl
CHI
2002
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
CHI@20: fighting our way from marginality to power
The Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI) has had a successful history of 20 years of growth in its numbers and influence. To help guide the continued evol...
Ben Shneiderman, Stuart K. Card, Donald A. Norman,...