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CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Predicting tie strength in a new medium
We have friends we consider very close and acquaintances we barely know. The social sciences use the term tie strength to denote this differential closeness with the people in our...
Eric Gilbert
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Recommending routes in the context of bicycling: algorithms, evaluation, and the value of personalization
Users have come to rely on automated route finding services for driving, public transit, walking, and bicycling. Current state of the art route finding algorithms typically rely...
Reid Priedhorsky, David Pitchford, Shilad Sen, Lor...
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days 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
14 years 11 days ago
Verbal coordination in first person shooter games
We explore how expert First Person Shooter (FPS) players coordinate actions using a shared voice channel. Our findings emphasize the importance of the temporality and spatiality o...
Anthony Tang, Jonathan Massey, Nelson Wong, Derek ...
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Photoshop with friends: a synchronous learning community for graphic design
Photoshop with Friends is an online community of learners exchanging just-in-time help on graphic design tasks. The system attempts to provide an interactive, visual, context-awar...
Juho Kim, Benjamin Malley, Joel Brandt, Mira Dontc...
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Finding a new normal: the role of technology in life disruptions
In recent years, the HCI and CSCW communities have begun to examine the role technology plays in personal, rather than professional settings. Part of this work has begun to addres...
Michael Massimi, Jill P. Dimond, Christopher A. Le...
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Phrases that signal workplace hierarchy
Hierarchy fundamentally shapes how we act at work. In this paper, we explore the relationship between the words people write in workplace email and the rank of the email’s recip...
Eric Gilbert
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Shepherding the crowd yields better work
Micro-task platforms provide massively parallel, ondemand labor. However, it can be difficult to reliably achieve high-quality work because online workers may behave irresponsibly...
Steven Dow, Anand Pramod Kulkarni, Scott R. Klemme...
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
CrowdWeaver: visually managing complex crowd work
Though toolkits exist to create complex crowdsourced workflows, there is limited support for management of those workflows. Managing crowd workers and tasks requires significant i...
Aniket Kittur, Susheel Khamkar, Paul André,...
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Come meet me at Ulduar: progression raiding in world of warcraft
In spite of decades of research on virtual worlds, our understanding of one popular form of virtual world behavior— raiding—remains limited. Raiding is important because it en...
Jeffrey Bardzell, Jeffrey Nichols, Tyler Pace, Sha...