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GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Feedback for guiding reflection on teamwork practices
Effective communication in project teams is important, but not often taught. We explore how feedback might improve teamwork in a controlled experiment where groups interact throug...
Gilly Leshed, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Dan Cosley, Popp...
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Supporting creativity with awareness in distributed collaboration
Based on qualitative analysis of three groups collaborating on a research task in a distributed setting, we identify four breakdowns in creativity: (1) Minority ideas were under-c...
Umer Farooq, John M. Carroll, Craig H. Ganoe
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Twiki and wetpaint: two wikis in academic environments
This paper describes a community-based effort to preserve organizational knowledge and to orientate newcomers to a graduate school. It presents a very brief review of recent resea...
Libby Hemphill, Jude Yew
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The story of a working workflow management system
This work presents experiences with the adopting of a workflow management system in a large financial institution. We describe the gradual evolution of a traditional work process,...
Steen Brahe, Kjeld Schmidt
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The "active" gatekeeper in collaborative information seeking activities
Multidisciplinary team members often must work together to find needed information. To identify when team members collaborate, why they collaborate, and how they collaborate durin...
Patricia Ruma Spence, Madhu C. Reddy
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Identity management: multiple presentations of self in facebook
As the use of social networking websites becomes increasingly common, the types of social relationships managed on these sites are becoming more numerous and diverse. This researc...
Joan Morris DiMicco, David R. Millen
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Beyond the lan: techniques from network games for improving groupware performance
Networked games can provide groupware developers with important lessons in how to deal with real-world networking issues such as latency, limited bandwidth and packet loss. Games ...
Jeff Dyck, Carl Gutwin, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Dav...
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
That's what friends are for: facilitating 'who knows what' across group boundaries
We describe the design and evaluation of K-net, a social matching system to help people learn 'who knows what' in an organization by matching people with skills with tho...
N. Sadat Shami, Y. Connie Yuan, Dan Cosley, Ling X...
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Community, consensus, coercion, control: cs*w or how policy mediates mass participation
When large groups cooperate, issues of conflict and control surface because of differences in perspective. Managing such diverse views is a persistent problem in cooperative group...
Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh, David W. McDon...