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CSCW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Research team integration: what it is and why it matters
Science policy across the world emphasizes the desirability of research teams that can integrate diverse perspectives and expertise into new knowledge, methods, and products. Howe...
Aruna D. Balakrishnan, Sara B. Kiesler, Jonathon N...
CSCW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Organizational acculturation and social networking
For large global enterprises, providing adequate resources for organizational acculturation, the process in which employees learn about an organization’s culture, remains a chal...
Jennifer Thom-Santelli, David R. Millen, Darren Ge...
CSCW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Designing incentives for inexpert human raters
The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this pap...
Aaron D. Shaw, John J. Horton, Daniel L. Chen
CSCW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Towards quality discourse in online news comments
With the growth in sociality and interaction around online news media, news sites are increasingly becoming places for communities to discuss and address common issues spurred by ...
Nicholas Diakopoulos, Mor Naaman
CSCW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Thanks and tweets: comparing two public displays
Two public display systems, with different methods of posting, were deployed over several years. One, the Thank You Board, was designed to give people an outlet specifically for p...
Sean A. Munson, Emily Rosengren, Paul Resnick
CSCW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Creating a context of trust with ICTs: restoring a sense of normalcy in the environment
This paper reports on an ethnographic study of the technology-enabled behavior that took place amongst a citizen population living in a conflict zone. We interviewed 65 Iraqi citi...
Bryan Semaan, Gloria Mark
CSCW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Me and my avatar: exploring users' comfort with avatars for workplace communication
This paper describes results from a large-scale survey to explore users’ comfort with different styles of avatars for workplace communication. Thirty-one avatars were evaluated ...
Kori M. Inkpen, Mara Sedlins
CSCW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Network properties and social sharing of emotions in social awareness streams
The relationship between social sharing of emotions, social networks and social ties is an ongoing topic of research. Such sharing of emotions occurs frequently in “social aware...
Funda Kivran-Swaine, Mor Naaman
CSCW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Peer interaction effectively, yet infrequently, enables programmers to discover new tools
Computer users rely on software tools to work effectively and efficiently, but it is difficult for users to be aware of all the tools that might be useful to them. While there a...
Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Gail C. Murphy