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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Pathfinder: an online collaboration environment for citizen scientists
For over a century, citizen scientists have volunteered to collect huge quantities of data for professional scientists to analyze. We designed Pathfinder, an online environment th...
Kurt Luther, Scott Counts, Kristin B. Stecher, Aar...
CSCW
2004
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Collaborative knowledge management supporting mars mission scientists
This paper describes the design and deployment of a collaborative software tool, designed for and presently in use on the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) 2003 mission. Two central q...
Irene Tollinger, Michael McCurdy, Alonso H. Vera, ...
CANDC
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
A tale of two online communities: fostering collaboration and creativity in scientists and children
There has been much recent interest in the development of tools to foster remote collaboration and shared creative work. An open question is: what are the guidelines for this proc...
Cecilia R. Aragon, Sarah S. Poon, Andrés Mo...
DGO
2003
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13 years 8 months ago
Scientist, Politician, and Bureaucrat Subcultures as Barriers to Information-Sharing in Government Agencies
This paper is based on an exploratory, interdisciplinary study of issues related to information-sharing within and across three public agencies. We build on Schein’s (1996) work...
David B. Drake, Marianne J. Koch, Nicole Steckler
JITECH
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
A computer scientist's reactions to NPfIT
This paper contains a set of personal views relating to NHS Connecting for Health’s National Programme for IT (NPfIT), and in particular its Care Records Service, written from t...
Brian Randell