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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Augmented social cognition: using social web technology to enhance the ability of groups to remember, think, and reason
We are experiencing a new Social Web, where people share, communicate, commiserate, and conflict with each other. As evidenced by systems like Wikipedia, twitter, and delicious.co...
Ed H. Chi
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
What is chat doing in the workplace?
We report an empirical study of a synchronous messaging application with group-oriented functionality designed to support teams in the workplace. In particular, the tool supports ...
Mark Handel, James D. Herbsleb
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Social Interaction History: A Framework for Supporting Exploration of Social Information Spaces
— Social interaction history refers to traces of social interaction in information spaces. These traces have potential to help users explore and navigate through information spac...
Indratmo, Julita Vassileva
CSCW
2007
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Doing Virtually Nothing: Awareness and Accountability in Massively Multiplayer Online Worlds
To date the most popular and sophisticated types of virtual worlds can be found in the area of video gaming, especially in the genre of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Ga...
Robert J. Moore, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Eric Nickell
CMOT
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
A cognitively based simulation of academic science
The models used in social simulation to date have mostly been very simplistic cognitively, with little attention paid to the details of individual cognition. This work proposes a ...
Isaac Naveh, Ron Sun