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IV
2006
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Plot-polling: Collaborative Knowledge Visualization for Online Discussions
Online communities are extremely popular; yet most of them still rely primarily on text for knowledge creation and communication. This paper describes a graphical webpoll prototyp...
Alex Ivanov, Thomas Erickson, Dianne Cyr
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 4 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...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Feed me: motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites
Social networking sites (SNS) are only as good as the content their users share. Therefore, designers of SNS seek to improve the overall user experience by encouraging members to ...
Moira Burke, Cameron Marlow, Thomas M. Lento
AIRWEB
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
A few bad votes too many?: towards robust ranking in social media
Online social media draws heavily on active reader participation, such as voting or rating of news stories, articles, or responses to a question. This user feedback is invaluable ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
CACM
2002
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13 years 9 months ago
Digital city Kyoto
Abstract. We have developed a digital city for Kyoto, the old capital and cultural center of Japan, as a social information infrastructure for urban everyday life including shoppin...
Toru Ishida