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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Eliciting and focusing geographic volunteer work
Open content communities such as wikis derive their value from the work done by users. However, a key challenge is to elicit work that is sufficient and focused where needed. We ...
Reid Priedhorsky, Mikhil Masli, Loren G. Terveen
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Motivating participation by displaying the value of contribution
One of the important challenges faced by designers of online communities is eliciting sufficent contributions from community members. Users in online communities may have difficul...
Al Mamunur Rashid, Kimberly S. Ling, Regina D. Tas...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Utilizing multimedia capabilities of mobile phones to support teaching in schools in rural panama
Providing good education is one of the major challenges for humanity. In many developing regions in the world improving educational standards is seen as a central building block f...
Elba del Carmen Valderrama Bahamóndez, Chri...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Technology in mental health
Mental illness has been identified as one of the greatest challenges facing society in the coming decades. However, there are significant barriers to access for many people suffer...
Gavin Doherty, John Sharry, Magnus Bång, Mar...
SOFTWARE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
What Do We Know about Developer Motivation?
s of titles and abstracts) as irrelevant to our focus. We read the remaining 519 papers in full to establish our final list. The 92 papers we chose were originally published in the...
Tracy Hall, Helen Sharp, Sarah Beecham, Nathan Bad...