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CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Mopping up: modeling wikipedia promotion decisions
This paper presents a model of the behavior of candidates for promotion to administrator status in Wikipedia. It uses a policy capture framework to highlight similarities and diff...
Moira Burke, Robert Kraut
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Can you ever trust a wiki?: impacting perceived trustworthiness in wikipedia
Wikipedia has become one of the most important information resources on the Web by promoting peer collaboration and enabling virtually anyone to edit anything. However, this mutab...
Aniket Kittur, Bongwon Suh, Ed H. Chi
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Understanding collective play in an urban screen game
In recent years there has been a growing interest in urban screen applications. While there have been several deployments of these technologies in our urban environments, surprisi...
Kenton O'Hara, Maxine Glancy, Simon Robertshaw
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Family accounts: a new paradigm for user accounts within the home environment
In this paper we present Family Accounts, a new user account model for shared home computers. We conducted a study with sixteen families, eight who used individual profiles at hom...
Serge Egelman, A. J. Bernheim Brush, Kori M. Inkpe...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
IM waiting: timing and responsiveness in semi-synchronous communication
Responsiveness, or the time until a person responds to communication, can affect the dynamics of a conversation as well as participants' perceptions of one another. In this p...
Daniel Avrahami, Susan R. Fussell, Scott E. Hudson
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Providing awareness in multi-synchronous collaboration without compromising privacy
When involved in collaborative tasks, users often choose to use multi-synchronous applications in order to concurrently work in isolation. Hence, privacy of their changes is maint...
Claudia-Lavinia Ignat, Stavroula Papadopoulou, G&e...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Minimum movement matters: impact of robot-mounted cameras on social telepresence
Recently, various robots capable of having a video chat with distant people have become commercially available. This paper shows that movement of these robots enhances distant peo...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Yuki Murakami, Daisuke Nogami,...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Supporting medical conversations between deaf and hearing individuals with tabletop displays
This paper describes the design and evaluation of Shared Speech Interface (SSI), an application for an interactive multitouch tabletop display designed to facilitate medical conve...
Anne Marie Piper, James D. Hollan
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Can markets help?: applying market mechanisms to improve synchronous communication
There is a growing interest in applying market mechanisms to tackle everyday communication problems such as communication interruptions and communication overload. Prior analytic ...
Gary Hsieh, Robert Kraut, Scott E. Hudson, Roberto...