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CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Setting the stage for interaction: a tablet application to augment group discussion in a seminar class
We present a tablet-based system to collaboratively track discussion topics and ideas in a seminar-style discussion classroom. Each student uses his or her own tablet to share tex...
Drew Harry, Eric Gordon, Chris Schmandt
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days 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
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Integrating local and remote worlds through channel blending
Recent advances in ubiquitous technology have greatly changed the way people stay connected. We conducted an in-depth video shadowing study to observe how close-knit groups use al...
Ellen Isaacs, Margaret H. Szymanski, Yutaka Yamauc...
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
See friendship, sort of: how conversation and digital traces might support reflection on friendships
Inspired by conversational visualization tools and the increasing enactment of relationships in social media, we examine how people reflect on friendships and how social data and ...
Victoria Schwanda Sosik, Xuan Zhao, Dan Cosley
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Practices of information and secrecy in a punk rock subculture
By examining the information practices of a punk-rock subculture, we investigate the limits of social media systems, particularly limits exposed by practices of secrecy. Looking a...
Jessica Lingel, Aaron Trammell, Joe Sanchez, Mor N...
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
The personality of popular facebook users
We study the relationship between Facebook popularity (number of contacts) and personality traits on a large number of subjects. We test to which extent two prevalent viewpoints h...
Daniele Quercia, Renaud Lambiotte, David Stillwell...
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Collaboratively crowdsourcing workflows with turkomatic
Preparing complex jobs for crowdsourcing marketplaces requires careful attention to workflow design, the process of decomposing jobs into multiple tasks, which are solved by multi...
Anand Pramod Kulkarni, Matthew Can, Björn Har...
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Building for social translucence: a domain analysis and prototype system
The relationships and work that facilitate content creation in large online contributor system are not always visible. Social translucence is a stance toward the design of systems...
David W. McDonald, Stephanie Gokhman, Mark Zachry
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Technology-mediated contributions: editing behaviors among new wikipedians
The power-law distribution of participation characterizes a wide variety of technology-mediated social participation (TMSP) systems, and Wikipedia is no exception. A minority of a...
Judd Antin, Coye Cheshire, Oded Nov
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CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
To stay or leave?: the relationship of emotional and informational support to commitment in online health support groups
Today many people with serious diseases use online support groups to seek social support. For these groups to be sustained and effective, member retention and commitment is import...
Yi-Chia Wang, Robert Kraut, John M. Levine