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CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Sharing the big apple: a survey study of people, place and locatability
With the advancement in technologies to locate individuals, there has been an emergence of information systems that link People-to-People-to-Geographical-Places, labeled P3Systems...
Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Quentin Jones, Samer Karam
WIKIS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 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
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Where are you pointing?: the accuracy of deictic pointing in CVEs
Deictic reference – pointing at things during conversation – is ubiquitous in human communication, and should also be an important tool in distributed collaborative virtual en...
Nelson Wong, Carl Gutwin
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
CONEXT
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Practical service provisioning for wireless meshes
Community wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are increasingly being deployed for providing cheap, low maintenance Internet access. For the successful adoption of WMNs as a last-mile te...
Saumitra M. Das, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charl...