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GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Searching for expertise in social networks: a simulation of potential strategies
People search for people with suitable expertise all of the time in their social networks – to answer questions or provide help. Recently, efforts have been made to augment this...
Jun Zhang, Mark S. Ackerman
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
VERN: facilitating democratic group decision making online
VERN is an online collaborative tool that coordinates and distributes the process of finding optimal meeting times across the members of a group. The system combines the underlyin...
Sarita Yardi, Benjamin Hill, Stephen Chan
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Unraveling the ordering in persistent chat: a new message ordering feature
A common problem in chat is that the chat display only reveals the temporal order of the conversation. A better user interface is desired that reveals the logical order of the mes...
Lu Xiao, Jayne S. Litzinger
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Design decisions in the RideNow project
The RideNow Project is designed to help individuals within a group or organization coordinate ad hoc shared rides. This paper describes three design decisions the RideNow team mad...
Rick Wash, Libby Hemphill, Paul Resnick
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Uncovering privacy attitudes and practices in instant messaging
We present an analysis of privacy attitudes and practices in Instant Messaging based on responses to an online questionnaire. On a 7point Likert scale, the reported concern about ...
Sameer Patil, Alfred Kobsa
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A survey of collaborative information seeking practices of academic researchers
Information seeking and management practices are an integral aspect of people’s daily work. However, we still have little understanding of collaboration in the information seeki...
Patricia Ruma Spence, Madhu C. Reddy, Richard Hall
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Negotiated rhythms of mobile work: time, place, and work schedules
This study investigates the role of rhythms in the collaborative coordination of mobile work as well as in the individual actors’ comprehension and command of their work. Drawin...
Magnus Nilsson, Morten Hertzum
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Seeking the source: software source code as a social and technical artifact
In distributed software development, two sorts of dependencies can arise. The structure of the software system itself can create dependencies between software elements, while the ...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Jon Froehlich, Paul Douri...
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Broadcasting information via display names in instant messaging
Many instant messenger (IM) clients let a person specify the identifying name that appears in another person’s contact list. We have noticed that many people add extra informati...
Stephanie Smale, Saul Greenberg
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Real-world oriented information sharing using social networks
While users disseminate various information in the open and widely distributed environment of the Semantic Web, determination of who shares access to particular information is at ...
Junichiro Mori, Tatsuhiko Sugiyama, Yutaka Matsuo