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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 7 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
ECTEL
2007
Springer
14 years 19 days ago
E-Learning on the Social Semantic Information Sources
Abstract. E-Learning grows on the fertile soil of the Internet technologies; it fails, however, to reach their full potential. With new, emerging technologies of the second generat...
Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Adam Gzella, Jaroslaw Dobr...
WIKIS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Herding the cats: the influence of groups in coordinating peer production
Peer production systems rely on users to self-select appropriate tasks and “scratch their personal itch”. However, many such systems require significant maintenance work, whic...
Aniket Kittur, Bryan A. Pendleton, Robert E. Kraut
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
Traditional activities change in surprising ways when computermediated communication becomes a component of the activity system. In this descriptive study, we leverage two perspec...
Susan L. Bryant, Andrea Forte, Amy Bruckman
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Coordinating tasks on the commons: designing for personal goals, expertise and serendipity
How is work created, assigned, and completed on large-scale, crowd-powered systems like Wikipedia? And what design principles might enable these federated online systems to be mor...
Michel Krieger, Emily Margarete Stark, Scott R. Kl...