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CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 19 days ago
Improving Crowd Innovation with Expert Facilitation
Online crowds are a promising source of new innovations. However, crowd innovation quality does not always match its quantity. In this paper, we explore how to improve crowd innov...
Joel Chan, Steven Dang, Steven P. Dow
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 19 days ago
Managing Expectations: Technology Tensions among Parents and Teens
Extensive scholarship has investigated technology use among families. Existing work has focused primarily on parents’ reactions to and restrictions of their children’s technol...
Lindsay Blackwell, Emma Gardiner, Sarita Yardi Sch...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 19 days ago
Distributed Liveness: Understanding How New Technologies Transform Performance Experiences
We identify emerging phenomena of distributed liveness, involving new relationships among performers, audiences, and technology. Liveness is a recent, technology-based construct, ...
Andrew M. Webb, Chen Wang, Andruid Kerne, Pablo C&...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 19 days ago
"Thanks for your interest in our Facebook group, but it's only for dads: " Social Roles of Stay-at-Home Dads
The number of stay-at-home dads (SAHDs) in the U.S. has risen dramatically over the past 30 years. Despite gaining social acceptability, SAHDs still experience isolation and judgm...
Tawfiq Ammari, Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 19 days ago
Avalanche Beacon Parks: Skill Development and Team Coordination in a Technological Training Ground
High-risk outdoor recreation allows its enthusiasts to reach unprecedented levels of adrenaline; it also contains risks and requires specific training (in part technological). In ...
Audrey Desjardins, Saul Greenberg, Ron Wakkary, Je...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 19 days ago
Which Way Did They Go? Newcomer Movement through the Zooniverse
Research on newcomer roles in peer production sites (e.g., Wikipedia) is characterized by a broad and relatively wellarticulated set of functionally and culturally recognizable ro...
Corey Brian Jackson, Carsten S. Østerlund, ...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 19 days ago
Almost an Expert: The Effects of Rubrics and Expertise on Perceived Value of Crowdsourced Design Critiques
Expert feedback is valuable but hard to obtain for many designers. Online crowds can provide fast and affordable feedback, but workers may lack relevant domain knowledge and exper...
Alvin Yuan, Kurt Luther, Markus Krause, Sophie Isa...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 19 days ago
To Beam or Not to Beam: A Study of Remote Telepresence Attendance at an Academic Conference
Attending and presenting at conferences is a core part of academic and industrial research. Yet it can sometimes be challenging to attend conferences due to travel restrictions, t...
Carman Neustaedter, Gina Venolia, Jason Procyk, Da...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 19 days ago
Crowdsourcing Queue Estimations in Situ
We present the development and evaluation of a situated crowdsourcing mechanism that estimates queue length in real time. The system relies on public interactive kiosks to collect...
Jorge Gonçalves, Hannu Kukka, Iván S...