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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Competing online viewpoints and models of chronic illness
People with chronic health problems use online resources to understand and manage their condition, but many such resources can present competing and confusing viewpoints. We surve...
Jennifer Mankoff, Kateryna Kuksenok, Sara B. Kiesl...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Organizing without formal organization: group identification, goal setting and social modeling in directing online production
A challenge for many online production communities is to direct their members to accomplish tasks that are important to the group, even when these tasks may not match individual m...
Haiyi Zhu, Robert Kraut, Aniket Kittur
CSCW
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Enlightening a co-located community with a semi-public notification system
This work seeks to strengthen interaction within a research community through a centrally-located physical device that presents online presence information in a semi-public space....
Goldie B. Terrell, D. Scott McCrickard
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Find me if you can: improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity
Geography and social relationships are inextricably intertwined; the people we interact with on a daily basis almost always live near us. As people spend more time online, data re...
Lars Backstrom, Eric Sun, Cameron Marlow
IJWBC
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
Personal profiles: enhancing social interaction in learning networks
Nowadays, we witness a surge of online profiling sites; in them people make their profile available to others with the intention to share it and get in touch with others, find old ...
Adriana J. Berlanga, Marlies Bitter-Rijpkema, Fran...