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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
This study investigates whether deception in online dating profiles is detectable through a linguistic approach, which assumes that liars nonconsciously produce different word pat...
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...