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GROUP
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
From plans to planning: the case of nursing plans
Drawing on a critical perspective stemming from socially informed studies of medicine, we analyze an ongoing effort to establish electronic nursing plans at the university hospita...
Glenn Munkvold, Gunnar Ellingsen, Eric Monteiro
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A field study of community bar: (mis)-matches between theory and practice
Community Bar (CB) is groupware supporting informal awareness and casual interaction. CB's design was derived from three sources: prior empirical research findings concerning...
Natalia A. Romero, Gregor McEwan, Saul Greenberg
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia
Wikipedia's brilliance and curse is that any user can edit any of the encyclopedia entries. We introduce the notion of the impact of an edit, measured by the number of times ...
Reid Priedhorsky, Jilin Chen, Shyong K. Lam, Kathe...
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Knowledge work artifacts: kernel cousins for free/open source software development
Most empirical studies of peer production have focused on the final products of these efforts (such as software in Free/Open Source projects), but there are also many other knowle...
Margaret S. Elliott, Mark S. Ackerman, Walt Scacch...
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Supporting collaborative software development through the visualization of socio-technical dependencies
One of the reasons large-scale software development is difficult is the number of dependencies that software engineers face. These dependencies create a need for communication and...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Stephen Quirk, Erik Train...
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The gospel of knowledge management in and out of a professional community
Knowledge management (KM) remains an anomaly in most corporations today. Critics call KM a fad of the 1990s, whereas supporters claim KM is actively evolving. Our work examines th...
Norman Makoto Su, Hiroko Wilensky, David F. Redmil...
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Unpacking the social dimension of external interruptions
The paper systematically explores the social dimension of external interruptions of human activities. Interruptions and interruption handling are key issues in human-computer inte...
Rikard Harr, Victor Kaptelinin
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The quest for quality tags
Many online communities use tags
Shilad Sen, F. Maxwell Harper, Adam LaPitz, John R...
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A metrics framework for evaluating group formation
Many approaches to learning and teaching rely upon students working in groups. So far, many Computer-Supported Group Formation systems have been designed to facilitate the formati...
Asma Ounnas, David E. Millard, Hugh C. Davis