Drawing on a critical perspective stemming from socially informed studies of medicine, we analyze an ongoing effort to establish electronic nursing plans at the university hospita...
Community Bar (CB) is groupware supporting informal awareness and casual interaction. CB's design was derived from three sources: prior empirical research findings concerning...
Wikipedia's brilliance and curse is that any user can edit any of the encyclopedia entries. We introduce the notion of the impact of an edit, measured by the number of times ...
Reid Priedhorsky, Jilin Chen, Shyong K. Lam, Kathe...
Most empirical studies of peer production have focused on the final products of these efforts (such as software in Free/Open Source projects), but there are also many other knowle...
Margaret S. Elliott, Mark S. Ackerman, Walt Scacch...
One of the reasons large-scale software development is difficult is the number of dependencies that software engineers face. These dependencies create a need for communication and...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Stephen Quirk, Erik Train...
Knowledge management (KM) remains an anomaly in most corporations today. Critics call KM a fad of the 1990s, whereas supporters claim KM is actively evolving. Our work examines th...
Norman Makoto Su, Hiroko Wilensky, David F. Redmil...
The paper systematically explores the social dimension of external interruptions of human activities. Interruptions and interruption handling are key issues in human-computer inte...
Many approaches to learning and teaching rely upon students working in groups. So far, many Computer-Supported Group Formation systems have been designed to facilitate the formati...