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KDD
2009
ACM
167views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Seven pitfalls to avoid when running controlled experiments on the web
Controlled experiments, also called randomized experiments and A/B tests, have had a profound influence on multiple fields, including medicine, agriculture, manufacturing, and adv...
Thomas Crook, Brian Frasca, Ron Kohavi, Roger Long...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
94views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
CS1 students speak: advice for students by students
We collected advice on how to succeed at learning to program from 164 CS1 students at 3 institutions during a "saying is believing"intervention designed to encourage a g...
Beth Simon, Brian Hanks, Carol Zander, Laurie Murp...
CANDC
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
A tale of two online communities: fostering collaboration and creativity in scientists and children
There has been much recent interest in the development of tools to foster remote collaboration and shared creative work. An open question is: what are the guidelines for this proc...
Cecilia R. Aragon, Sarah S. Poon, Andrés Mo...
ICWSM
2010
14 years 11 months ago
StepGreen.org: Increasing Energy Saving Behaviors via Social Networks
Decades of research have explored factors that can influence green behavior. However, much less is known about the ways in which technology in general, and social technologies in ...
Jennifer Mankoff, Susan R. Fussell, Tawanna Dillah...
AI
2010
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Agent decision-making in open mixed networks
Computer systems increasingly carry out tasks in mixed networks, that is in group settings in which they interact both with other computer systems and with people. Participants in...
Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Sarit Kraus, Avi Pf...