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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
What do you know?: experts, novices and territoriality in collaborative systems
When experts participate in collaborative systems, tension may arise between them and novice contributors. In particular, when experts perceive novices as a bother or a threat, th...
Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Dan Cosley, Geri Gay
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Asl-stem forum: enabling sign language to grow through online collaboration
American Sign Language (ASL) currently lacks agreed-upon signs for complex terms in scientific fields, causing deaf students to miss or misunderstand course material. Furthermor...
Anna Cavender, Daniel S. Otero, Jeffrey P. Bigham,...
ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Harnessing Wisdom of the Crowds Dynamics for Time-Dependent Reputation and Ranking
—The “wisdom of the crowds” is a concept used to describe the utility of harnessing group behaviour, where user opinion evolves over time and the opinion of the masses collec...
Elizabeth M. Daly
GIS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
An agenda for the next generation gazetteer: geographic information contribution and retrieval
Gazetteers are key components of georeferenced information systems, including applications such as Web-based mapping services. Existing gazetteers lack the capabilities to fully i...
Carsten Keßler, Krzysztof Janowicz, Mohamed ...
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Feedback Loops of Attention in Peer Production
—A significant percentage of online content is now published and consumed via the mechanism of crowdsourcing. While any user can contribute to these forums, a disproportionately...
Fang Wu, Dennis M. Wilkinson, Bernardo A. Huberman