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CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
To stay or leave?: the relationship of emotional and informational support to commitment in online health support groups
Today many people with serious diseases use online support groups to seek social support. For these groups to be sustained and effective, member retention and commitment is import...
Yi-Chia Wang, Robert Kraut, John M. Levine
JECR
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
Knowledgeable Agents for Search and Choice Support in E-commerce: A Decision Support Systems Approach
Software agents are a major innovation in how people use information systems, and they have parallels with how Decision Support Systems (DSS) support human decision-making. A DSS ...
Susan Sproule, Norman P. Archer
RTAS
2002
IEEE
14 years 10 days ago
Middleware versus Native OS Support: Architectural Considerations for Supporting Multimedia Applications
In this paper, we examine two architectural alternatives— native OS support versus middleware—for supporting multimedia applications. Specifically, we examine whether extensi...
Prashant J. Shenoy, Saif Hasan, Purushottam Kulkar...
ECTEL
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Supporting Attention in Learning Environments: Attention Support Services, and Information Management
Learners and knowledge workers are increasingly facing environments where frequent interruptions, multi-tasking, information overload, and insufficient community awareness are the ...
Claudia Roda, Thierry Nabeth