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CSCW
2016
ACM
10 years 3 days ago
Well-Connected: Promoting Collaboration by Effective Networking
We have developed a method and system that uses mutually agreed problem structuring and self-selection to bring together meeting attendees with complementary interests. The method...
David A. Robb, Thomas S. Methven, Stefano Padilla,...
CSCW
2016
ACM
10 years 3 days ago
Embeddedness and sequentiality in social media
Over the last decade, there has been an explosion of work around social media within CSCW. A range of perspectives have been applied to the use of social media, which we character...
Stuart Reeves, Barry A. T. Brown
CSCW
2016
ACM
10 years 3 days ago
Partners in Care: Design Considerations for Caregivers and Patients During a Hospital Stay
Informal caregivers, such as close friends and family, play an important role in a hospital patient’s care. Although CSCW researchers have shown the potential for social computi...
Andrew D. Miller, Sonali R. Mishra, Logan Kendall,...
CSCW
2016
ACM
10 years 3 days ago
On the Wisdom of Experts vs. Crowds: Discovering Trustworthy Topical News in Microblogs
Extracting news on specific topics from the Twitter microblogging site poses formidable challenges, which include handling millions of tweets posted daily, judging topicality and...
Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Parantapa Bhattacharya, Nilo...
CSCW
2016
ACM
10 years 3 days ago
MixMeetWear: Live Meetings at a Glance
We present MixMeetWear, a smartwatch application that allows users to maintain awareness of the audio and visual content of a meeting while completing other tasks. Users of the sy...
Ville Mäkelä, Scott Carter, Jennifer Mar...
CSCW
2016
ACM
10 years 3 days ago
Considering Time in Designing Large-Scale Systems for Scientific Computing
High performance computing (HPC) has driven collaborative science discovery for decades. Exascale computing platforms, currently in the design stage, will be deployed around 2022....
Nan-Chen Chen, Sarah S. Poon, Lavanya Ramakrishnan...
CSCW
2016
ACM
10 years 3 days ago
Parting Crowds: Characterizing Divergent Interpretations in Crowdsourced Annotation Tasks
Crowdsourcing is a common strategy for collecting the “gold standard” labels required for many natural language applications. Crowdworkers differ in their responses for many r...
Sanjay Kairam, Jeffrey Heer
CSCW
2016
ACM
10 years 3 days ago
Jokebox: Coordinating Shared Encounters in Public Spaces
Eye contact is crucial to shared encounters in public spaces. However, most urban technologies that aim to foster social interaction tend to rely on screens, directing a significa...
Mara Balestrini, Raymundo Cornejo, Paul Marshall, ...