We study the development of common ground in an emergency management planning task. Twelve three-person multi-role teams performed the task with a paper prototype in a controlled ...
Gregorio Convertino, Helena M. Mentis, Mary Beth R...
The success of Wikipedia as a large-scale collaborative effort has spurred researchers to examine the motivations and behaviors of Wikipedia’s participants. However, this resear...
There are a variety of digital tools for enabling people who are separated by time and space to communicate and collaborate on shared interests and tasks. The widespread use of so...
Joseph F. McCarthy, Danah Boyd, Elizabeth F. Churc...
In this paper we analyse an apparently simple collaborative activity, that of passing an implement from one person to another. The particular case we consider is surgical operation...
Marcus Sanchez Svensson, Christian Heath, Paul Luf...
Online social production communities allow efficient construction of valuable and high-quality information sources. To be successful, community members must be effective at collab...