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2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The social roles of bots and assisted editing programs
This paper investigates software programs as non-human social actors in Wikipedia, arguing that influence must not be overlooked in social scientific research of the on-line encyc...
R. Stuart Geiger
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The work of sustaining order in wikipedia: the banning of a vandal
In this paper, we examine the social roles of software tools in the English-language Wikipedia, specifically focusing on autonomous editing programs and assisted editing tools. Th...
R. Stuart Geiger, David Ribes
ACSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Who is tweeting on Twitter: human, bot, or cyborg?
Twitter is a new web application playing dual roles of online social networking and micro-blogging. Users communicate with each other by publishing text-based posts. The popularit...
Zi Chu, Steven Gianvecchio, Haining Wang, Sushil J...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Socialization tactics in wikipedia and their effects
Socialization of newcomers is critical both for conventional groups. It helps groups perform effectively and the newcomers develop commitment. However, little empirical research h...
Boreum Choi, Kira Alexander, Robert E. Kraut, John...
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Encouraging physical therapy compliance with a hands-Off mobile robot
This paper presents results toward our ongoing research program into hands-off assistive human-robot interaction [6]. Our work has focused on applications of socially assistive r...
Rachel Gockley, Maja J. Mataric