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CANDT
2009
15 years 5 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
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
How oversight improves member-maintained communities
Online communities need regular maintenance activities such as moderation and data input, tasks that typically fall to community owners. Communities that allow all members to part...
Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Sara B. Kiesler, Loren...
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Community source development: an emerging model with new opportunities
This paper focuses on an emerging model for software development in higher education: community source. Community source seeks to blend aspects of both open source and traditional...
Dawn Ressel Nidy, Fong Kwok
ACMACE
2005
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Playmakers in multiplayer game communities: their importance and motivations for participation
In many game-like open-ended multiplayer communities, the success of the game, and well-being of the community, depends on the efforts of certain individuals who arrange resources...
Antti Salovaara, Mikael Johnson, Kalle Toiskallio,...
PDC
2004
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Artful infrastructuring in two cases of community PD
In this paper, we use the notions of artful integrations and infrastructure to analyze two cases of community Participatory Design ‘in the wild’. Though the communities are qu...
Helena Karasti, Anna-Liisa Syrjänen