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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Are you having difficulty?
It would be useful if software engineers/instructors could be aware that remote team members/students are having difficulty with their programming tasks. We have developed an appr...
Jason Carter, Prasun Dewan
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Eliciting and focusing geographic volunteer work
Open content communities such as wikis derive their value from the work done by users. However, a key challenge is to elicit work that is sufficient and focused where needed. We ...
Reid Priedhorsky, Mikhil Masli, Loren G. Terveen
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Understanding family communication across time zones
Nowadays it has become increasingly common for family members to be distributed in different time zones. These time differences pose specific challenges for communication within t...
Xiang Cao, Abigail Sellen, A. J. Bernheim Brush, D...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Lessons from thoughtswap-ing: increasing participants' coordinative agency in facilitated discussions
A successful collaborative tool designed to aid discussion must be flexible, maintain the user’s coordinative agency, and be appropriable in many contexts. We have developed a ...
Margaret Dickey-Kurdziolek, Matthew Schaefer, Debo...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Understanding deja reviewers
People who review products on the web invest considerable time and energy in what they write. So why would someone write a review that restates earlier reviews? Our work looks to ...
Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Readers are not free-riders: reading as a form of participation on wikipedia
The success of Wikipedia as a large-scale collaborative effort has spurred researchers to examine the motivations and behaviors of Wikipedia’s participants. However, this resear...
Judd Antin, Coye Cheshire
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Social language network analysis
In this note we introduce a new methodology that combines tools from social language processing and network analysis to identify socially situated relationships between individual...
Andrew J. Scholand, Yla R. Tausczik, James W. Penn...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Catchup: a useful application of time-travel in meetings
People are often required to catch up on information they have missed in meetings, because of lateness or scheduling conflicts. Catching up is a complex cognitive process where pe...
Simon Tucker, Ofer Bergman, Anand Ramamoorthy, Ste...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Reading between the lines: linguistic cues to deception in online dating profiles
This study investigates whether deception in online dating profiles is detectable through a linguistic approach, which assumes that liars nonconsciously produce different word pat...
Catalina L. Toma, Jeffrey T. Hancock
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Pitfalls of information access with visualizations in remote collaborative analysis
In a world of widespread information access, information can overwhelm collaborators, even with visualizations to help. We extend prior work to study the effect of shared informat...
Aruna D. Balakrishnan, Susan R. Fussell, Sara B. K...