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CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 6 days ago
Finding a new normal: the role of technology in life disruptions
In recent years, the HCI and CSCW communities have begun to examine the role technology plays in personal, rather than professional settings. Part of this work has begun to addres...
Michael Massimi, Jill P. Dimond, Christopher A. Le...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 7 days ago
Setting the stage for interaction: a tablet application to augment group discussion in a seminar class
We present a tablet-based system to collaboratively track discussion topics and ideas in a seminar-style discussion classroom. Each student uses his or her own tablet to share tex...
Drew Harry, Eric Gordon, Chris Schmandt
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 7 days ago
Collaboratively crowdsourcing workflows with turkomatic
Preparing complex jobs for crowdsourcing marketplaces requires careful attention to workflow design, the process of decomposing jobs into multiple tasks, which are solved by multi...
Anand Pramod Kulkarni, Matthew Can, Björn Har...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 7 days ago
Technology-mediated contributions: editing behaviors among new wikipedians
The power-law distribution of participation characterizes a wide variety of technology-mediated social participation (TMSP) systems, and Wikipedia is no exception. A minority of a...
Judd Antin, Coye Cheshire, Oded Nov
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Understanding my data, myself: supporting self-reflection with ubicomp technologies
We live in a world where many kinds of data about us can be collected and more will be collected as Ubicomp technologies mature. People reflect on this data using different tools ...
Ian Li, Anind K. Dey, Jodi Forlizzi
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
DrawerBrowser: practical picture browser for finding items in drawers
We propose a practical picture browser for finding items in drawers, DrawerBrowser, which is designed through observations of daily activities. Author Keywords Storage box, pictur...
Keisuke Kambara, Koji Tsukada