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CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 17 days ago
Do Massive Open Online Course Platforms Support Employability?
Past research suggests that many individuals take Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for employment-related reasons. It is unclear, however, how learners leverage MOOCs for emplo...
Tawanna R. Dillahunt, Sandy Ng, Michelle Fiesta, Z...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 17 days ago
Taking Notes or Playing Games? Understanding Multitasking in Video Communication
This paper presents a detailed examination of factors that affect perceptions of and attitudes towards multitasking in video conferencing. We first report findings from interviews...
Jennifer Marlow, Eveline van Everdingen, Daniel Av...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 17 days ago
Learnersourcing Personalized Hints
Personalized support for students is a costly gold standard in education, but it scales poorly with the number of students. Prior work on learnersourcing presented an approach for...
Elena L. Glassman, Aaron Lin, Carrie J. Cai, Rober...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 17 days ago
Early Adopters of the Internet and Social Media in Cuba
Although the Cuban government has tightly controlled information access for more than half a century, a small number of Cubans have access at work. In this paper, we examine Inter...
Michaelanne Dye, Annie I. Antón, Amy S. Bru...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 17 days ago
You Get Who You Pay for: The Impact of Incentives on Participation Bias
Designing effective incentives is a challenge across many social computing contexts, from attracting crowdworkers to sustaining online contributions. However, one aspect of incent...
Gary Hsieh, Rafal Kocielnik
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 17 days ago
ReLauncher: Crowdsourcing Micro-Tasks Runtime Controller
Pavel Kucherbaev, Florian Daniel, Stefano Tranquil...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 17 days ago
Beyond Talking Heads: Multimedia Artifact Creation, Use, and Sharing in Distributed Meetings
Distributed meetings can be messy, particularly when the task requires collaboration around multimedia artifacts. Teams must not only share a variety of materials related to the w...
Jennifer Marlow, Scott A. Carter, Nathaniel Good, ...
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 17 days ago
A Contingency View of Transferring and Adapting Best Practices within Online Communities
Online communities, much like companies in the business world, often need to transfer “best practices” internally from one unit to another to improve their performance. Organi...
Haiyi Zhu, Robert E. Kraut, Aniket Kittur
CSCW
2016
ACM
8 years 17 days ago
Reality and Perception of Copyright Terms of Service for Online Content Creation
  From amateur creativity to social media status updates, nearly every Internet user is also a content creator—but who owns that content? Policy, including intellectual property...
Casey Fiesler, Cliff Lampe, Amy S. Bruckman