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CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Public curation of a historic collection: a means for speaking safely in public
We showcase the Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal project and associated website that provides online public access to a set of historic video interviews with personnel from the Int...
Trond T. Nilsen, Nell Carden Grey, Batya Friedman
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Blogs as a collective war diary
Disaster-related research in human-centered computing has typically focused on the shorter-term, emergency period of a disaster event, whereas effects of some crises are longterm,...
Gloria Mark, Mossaab Bagdouri, Leysia Palen, James...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Who gives a tweet?: evaluating microblog content value
Paul André, Michael S. Bernstein, Kurt Luth...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Building a standpoints web to support decision-making in wikipedia
Although the Web enables large-scale collaboration, its potential to support group decision-making has not been fully exploited. My research aims to analyze, extract, and represen...
Jodi Schneider
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Setting the stage for interaction: a tablet application to augment group discussion in a seminar class
We present a tablet-based system to collaboratively track discussion topics and ideas in a seminar-style discussion classroom. Each student uses his or her own tablet to share tex...
Drew Harry, Eric Gordon, Chris Schmandt
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 7 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
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Integrating local and remote worlds through channel blending
Recent advances in ubiquitous technology have greatly changed the way people stay connected. We conducted an in-depth video shadowing study to observe how close-knit groups use al...
Ellen Isaacs, Margaret H. Szymanski, Yutaka Yamauc...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
See friendship, sort of: how conversation and digital traces might support reflection on friendships
Inspired by conversational visualization tools and the increasing enactment of relationships in social media, we examine how people reflect on friendships and how social data and ...
Victoria Schwanda Sosik, Xuan Zhao, Dan Cosley
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Practices of information and secrecy in a punk rock subculture
By examining the information practices of a punk-rock subculture, we investigate the limits of social media systems, particularly limits exposed by practices of secrecy. Looking a...
Jessica Lingel, Aaron Trammell, Joe Sanchez, Mor N...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
The personality of popular facebook users
We study the relationship between Facebook popularity (number of contacts) and personality traits on a large number of subjects. We test to which extent two prevalent viewpoints h...
Daniele Quercia, Renaud Lambiotte, David Stillwell...