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CSCW
2012
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Organizing without formal organization: group identification, goal setting and social modeling in directing online production
A challenge for many online production communities is to direct their members to accomplish tasks that are important to the group, even when these tasks may not match individual m...
Haiyi Zhu, Robert Kraut, Aniket Kittur
ESWS
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Leveraging Existing Web Frameworks for a SIOC Explorer to Browse Online Social Communities
Since online Semantic Web applications are based on existing Web infrastructure, developing these applications could leverage experiences with and infrastructure of existing framew...
Benjamin Heitmann, Eyal Oren
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ESWS
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Semantics, Sensors, and the Social Web: The Live Social Semantics Experiments
Abstract. The Live Social Semantics is an innovative application that encourages and guides social networking between researchers at conferences and similar events. The application...
Martin Szomszor, Ciro Cattuto, Wouter Van den Broe...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Pathfinder: an online collaboration environment for citizen scientists
For over a century, citizen scientists have volunteered to collect huge quantities of data for professional scientists to analyze. We designed Pathfinder, an online environment th...
Kurt Luther, Scott Counts, Kristin B. Stecher, Aar...
ICWSM
2010
14 years 11 months ago
Mobilizing Lurkers with a Targeted Task
Users of online communities are commonly classified into active members versus lurkers. In this work we experiment with a method designed to encourage lurkers to share their acqui...
Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, Beth Brownholtz