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CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Representing community: knowing users in the face of changing constituencies
This paper traces the use of the concept 'community' by drawing attention to the ways in which it serves as an organizing principle within systems development. The data ...
David Ribes, Thomas A. Finholt
CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
It's all 'about you': diversity in online profiles
User profiles on today's social networking sites support only a small set of predefined questions. We report on an alternative way for users to richly describe themselves, by...
Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Michael J. Muller, Joan...
CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
SPARCS: exploring sharing suggestions to enhance family connectedness
Staying in touch with extended family members can be a challenge in part because of the time and effort required, even with the help of current technologies. To explore the value ...
A. J. Bernheim Brush, Kori M. Inkpen, Kimberly Tee
CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
CoMaya: incorporating advanced collaboration capabilities into 3d digital media design tools
Complex 3D digital media creation demands anytime and anywhere collaboration support. The CoMaya project aims to incorporate such advanced collaboration capabilities into Autodesk...
Agustina Agustina, Fei Liu, Steven Xia, Haifeng Sh...
CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
EatWell: sharing nutrition-related memories in a low-income community
Low-income African American communities face a disproportionate amount of diet-related health problems in the United States. To address this issue, we developed EatWell, a system ...
Andrea Grimes, Martin Bednar, Jay David Bolter, Re...
CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Evaluating the deployment of a mobile technology in a hospital ward
Since health care teams are often distributed across time and location, information sharing is crucial for effective patient care. Studying the use of a mobile information technol...
Charlotte Tang, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale
CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Hunting for fun: solitude and attentiveness in collaboration
The design of online collaborative computer games and pervasive games can learn from the everyday practice of deer hunting. We present an ethnographic study revealing how hunters ...
Oskar Juhlin, Alexandra Weilenmann
CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Situated practices of looking: visual practice in an online world
Graphical virtual worlds are increasingly significant sites of collaborative interaction. Many argue that the simulation of the everyday environment makes them particularly effect...
Lilly Irani, Gillian R. Hayes, Paul Dourish
CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Resilience in collaboration: technology as a resource for new patterns of action
In CSCW, there has been little or no attention given to how people use technology to restore collaborations when there is a major environmental disruption. We are especially inter...
Gloria Mark, Bryan Semaan