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CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Phrases that signal workplace hierarchy
Hierarchy fundamentally shapes how we act at work. In this paper, we explore the relationship between the words people write in workplace email and the rank of the email’s recip...
Eric Gilbert
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Shepherding the crowd yields better work
Micro-task platforms provide massively parallel, ondemand labor. However, it can be difficult to reliably achieve high-quality work because online workers may behave irresponsibly...
Steven Dow, Anand Pramod Kulkarni, Scott R. Klemme...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
CrowdWeaver: visually managing complex crowd work
Though toolkits exist to create complex crowdsourced workflows, there is limited support for management of those workflows. Managing crowd workers and tasks requires significant i...
Aniket Kittur, Susheel Khamkar, Paul André,...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Come meet me at Ulduar: progression raiding in world of warcraft
In spite of decades of research on virtual worlds, our understanding of one popular form of virtual world behavior— raiding—remains limited. Raiding is important because it en...
Jeffrey Bardzell, Jeffrey Nichols, Tyler Pace, Sha...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Boundary regulation in social media
The management of group context in socially mediating technologies is an important challenge for the design community. To better understand how users manage group context, we expl...
Stutzman Frederic, Hartzog Woodrow
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Of joy and gender: emotional expression in online social networks
In this study, we analyzed the language use on Twitter personal exchanges as well as properties of the users’ networks, to study the influence of gender composition on expressio...
Funda Kivran-Swaine, Samuel Brody, Nicholas Diakop...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Removing gamification from an enterprise SNS
Gamification, the use of game mechanics in non-gaming applications, has been applied to various systems to encourage desired user behaviors. In this paper, we examine patterns of ...
Jennifer Thom-Santelli, David R. Millen, Joan Morr...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Community-based web security: complementary roles of the serious and casual contributors
Does crowdsourcing work for web security? While the herculean task of evaluating hundreds of millions of websites can certainly benefit from the wisdom of crowds, skeptics questi...
Pern Hui Chia, John Chuang
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Between us and them: building connectedness within civic networks
Civic networks of community-based organizations face significant challenges in working together to combat issues facing their community (e.g., gang violence, sex trafficking). In ...
Jennifer Stoll, W. Keith Edwards, Kirsten A. Foot