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CANDT
2009
15 years 8 months ago
Measuring self-focus bias in community-maintained knowledge repositories
Self-focus is a novel way of understanding a type of bias in community-maintained Web 2.0 graph structures. It goes beyond previous measures of topical coverage bias by encapsulat...
Brent Hecht, Darren Gergle
CANDT
2009
15 years 8 months ago
Experiential role of artefacts in cooperative design
The role of material artefacts in supporting distributed and colocated work practices has been well acknowledged within HCI and CSCW research. In this paper, we show that in addit...
Dhaval Vyas, Dirk Heylen, Anton Nijholt, Gerrit C....
CANDT
2009
15 years 8 months ago
An analysis of the social structure of remix culture
We present findings from our study of a music sharing and remixing community in an effort to quantify and understand the structural characteristics of commons-based peer productio...
Giorgos Cheliotis, Jude Yew
CANDT
2009
15 years 8 months ago
Toward an analytic framework for understanding and fostering peer-support communities in using and evolving software products
The fundamental challenge for social computing is to contribute to fostering communities in which humans can transcend the limitation of the unaided, individual human mind by help...
Andrew Gorman, Gerhard Fischer
CANDT
2009
15 years 8 months ago
Supportive communication, sense of virtual community and health outcomes in online infertility groups
Women are turning to online health groups to deal with the stresses and complications of infertility. Online groups may provide a resource that is potentially absent in their face...
Jennifer L. Welbourne, Anita L. Blanchard, Marla D...