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CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
The view from the trenches: organization, power, and technology at two nonprofit homeless outreach centers
Nonprofit social service organizations provide the backbone of social support infrastructure in the U.S. and around the world. As the ecology of information exchange moves evermor...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, W. Keith Edwards
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Beyond the Web: Retrieval in Social Information Spaces
We research whether the inclusion of information about an information user's social environment and his position in the social network of his peers leads to an improval in sea...
Sebastian Marius Kirsch, Melanie Gnasa, Armin B. C...
HT
2007
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
ASSIST: adaptive social support for information space traversal
Finding relevant information in a hyperspace has been a much studied problem for many years. With the emergence of so called Web 2.0 technologies we have seen the use of social sy...
Rosta Farzan, Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Br...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Why the plan doesn't hold: a study of situated planning, articulation and coordination work in a surgical ward
Most studies of plans and situated work have applied ethnographic methods and and thus fail to provide any quantitative insight into the extent of this phenomenon. We present a st...
Jakob E. Bardram, Thomas Riisgaard Hansen
BIS
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Social Network and Data Portability using Semantic Web Technologies
Social network and data portability has recently gained a lot of interest as one of the issues for social media sites on the Web. In this paper, we will show how Semantic Web techn...
Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, John G. Breslin, ...