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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...
CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Is the Crowd's Wisdom Biased? A Quantitative Analysis of Three Online Communities
We present a study of user voting on three websites: Imdb, Amazon and BookCrossings. Here we report on an expert evaluation of the voting mechanisms of each website and a quantitat...
Vassilis Kostakos
WWW
2011
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A case for query by image and text content: searching computer help using screenshots and keywords
The multimedia information retrieval community has dedicated extensive research effort to the problem of content-based image retrieval (CBIR). However, these systems find their ma...
Tom Yeh, Brandyn White, Jose San Pedro, Boris Katz...
HICSS
2011
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Is Happiness Contagious Online? A Case of Twitter and the 2010 Winter Olympics
Is happiness contagious online? To answer this question, this paper investigates the posting behavior of users on Twitter.com, a popular online service for sharing short messages....
Anatoliy A. Gruzd, Sophie Doiron, Philip Mai
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CANDT
2009
15 years 1 months ago
Facilitating participatory decision-making in local communities through map-based online discussion
Geographic information systems and online mapping technologies have been widely used for supporting participatory decision-making in local communities. However, limited studies ha...
Bo Yu, Guoray Cai