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ASSETS
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
MobileASL: : intelligibility of sign language video as constrained by mobile phone technology
For Deaf people, access to the mobile telephone network in the United States is currently limited to text messaging, forcing communication in English as opposed to American Sign L...
Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner, Eve A. Riskin
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Knowledge sharing and yahoo answers: everyone knows something
Yahoo Answers (YA) is a large and diverse question-answer forum, acting not only as a medium for sharing technical knowledge, but as a place where one can seek advice, gather opin...
Lada A. Adamic, Jun Zhang, Eytan Bakshy, Mark S. A...
CANDC
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Exploring illuminative systems in informal networks of adults
Whenever we feel those ‘higher’ and hard to define sensations like synchronicity, love, wholeness, and appreciation is this a pattern or illuminative system that is part of a ...
Amy K. Scatliff
TVCG
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
A Visual Backchannel for Large-Scale Events
—We introduce the concept of a Visual Backchannel as a novel way of following and exploring online conversations about large-scale events. Microblogging communities, such as Twit...
Marian Dörk, Daniel M. Gruen, Carey Williamso...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 17 days ago
Follow the reader: filtering comments on slashdot
Large-scale online communities need to manage the tension between critical mass and information overload. Slashdot is a news and discussion site that has used comment rating to al...
Cliff Lampe, Erik W. Johnston, Paul Resnick