Hand-crafted illustrations are often more effective than photographs for conveying the shape and important features of an object, but they require expertise and time to produce. W...
David Akers, Frank Losasso, Jeff Klingner, Maneesh...
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
Collaborations over distance must contend with the loss of the rich, subtle interactions that co-located teams use to coordinate their work. Previous research has suggested that o...
James D. Herbsleb, Audris Mockus, Thomas A. Finhol...
We have developed a middleware framework for workgroup environments that can support distributed software development and a variety of other application domains requiring document...
The need to merge different versions of an object toa common state arises in collaborative computing due to several reasons including optimistic concurrency control, asynchronous ...