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CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Sociable killers: understanding social relationships in an online first-person shooter game
Online video games can be seen as medium for the formation and maintenance of social relationships. In this paper, we explore what social relationships mean under the context of o...
Yan Xu, Xiang Cao, Abigail Sellen, Ralf Herbrich, ...
CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Thanks and tweets: comparing two public displays
Two public display systems, with different methods of posting, were deployed over several years. One, the Thank You Board, was designed to give people an outlet specifically for p...
Sean A. Munson, Emily Rosengren, Paul Resnick
CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Technology for emerging markets at MSR india
The Technology for Emerging Markets (TEM) group at Microsoft Research India seeks to address the needs and aspirations of people in the world's developing communities. Our re...
Edward Cutrell
CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Virtual gifts and guanxi: supporting social exchange in a chinese online community
Significant cultural differences persist between East and West. Software systems that have been proven to operate efficiently within one culture can fail in the context of the oth...
Jiang Yang, Mark S. Ackerman, Lada A. Adamic
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Loose strands: searching for evidence of public access ICT impact on development
Telecenters, libraries and internet cafés are often credited as being important venues for making information and communication technologies (ICTs) more widely available for peop...
Araba Sey, Michelle Fellows