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CSCW
2012
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Coordination and beyond: social functions of groups in open content production
We report on a study of the English edition of Wikipedia in which we used a mixed methods approach to understand how nested organizational structures called WikiProjects support c...
Andrea Forte, Niki Kittur, Vanessa Larco, Haiyi Zh...
CSCW
2012
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Designing a social network to support the independence of young adults with autism
Independence is key to a successful transition to adulthood for individuals with autism. Social support is a crucial factor for achieving adaptive self-help life skills. In this p...
Hwajung Hong, Jennifer G. Kim, Gregory D. Abowd, R...
AIWORC
2000
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Distance Learning Using Web-Based Multimedia Environment
The "schooling industry" is faced with an inescapable demand to redefine its endeavors in terms of producing learning, rather than providing instructions. We propose a h...
Khalid J. Siddiqui, Junaid Ahmed Zubairi
CCGRID
2004
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
DWDM-RAM: a data intensive Grid service architecture enabled by dynamic optical networks
Next generation applications and architectures (for example, Grids) are driving radical changes in the nature of traffic, service models, technology, and cost, creating opportunit...
Tal Lavian, Joe Mambretti, Doug Cutrell, Howard J....
CSCW
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Social use of computer-mediated communication by adults on the autism spectrum
The defining characteristics of autism, including difficulty with nonverbal cues and need for structure, and the defining characteristics of computer-mediated communication (CMC),...
Moira Burke, Robert Kraut, Diane Williams