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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Gone but not forgotten: designing for disconnection in synchronous groupware
Synchronous groupware depends on the assumption that people are fully connected to the others in the group, but there are many situations (network delay, network outage, or explic...
Carl Gutwin, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Christopher Wo...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
On the "localness" of user-generated content
The “localness” of participation in repositories of usergenerated content (UGC) with geospatial components has been cited as one of UGC’s greatest benefits. However, the deg...
Brent Hecht, Darren Gergle
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Determinants of wikipedia quality: the roles of global and local contribution inequality
The success of Wikipedia and the relative high quality of its articles seem to contradict conventional wisdom. Recent studies have begun shedding light on the processes contributi...
Ofer Arazy, Oded Nov
KDD
2009
ACM
183views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Financial incentives and the "performance of crowds"
The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based “crowd-sourcing” mo...
Winter A. Mason, Duncan J. Watts
WINE
2009
Springer
182views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Competitive Repeated Allocation without Payments
We study the problem of allocating a single item repeatedly among multiple competing agents, in an environment where monetary transfers are not possible. We design (Bayes-Nash) inc...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer, Daniel M. Reeves