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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Pictionaire: supporting collaborative design work by integrating physical and digital artifacts
This paper introduces an interactive tabletop system that enhances creative collaboration across physical and digital artifacts. Pictionaire offers capture, retrieval, annotation,...
Björn Hartmann, Meredith Ringel Morris, Hrvoj...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Survival needs and social inclusion: technology use among the homeless
This research reports an ethnographic study of issues surrounding digital technologies owned and used by homeless people in Los Angeles County. We identify two themes—survival a...
Jahmeilah Roberson, Bonnie A. Nardi
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
API peer reviews: a method for evaluating usability of application programming interfaces
API usability tests in the lab are time and resource intensive, thus allowing a relatively small percentage of the API namespace to be evaluated. We describe a group-based usabili...
Umer Farooq, Dieter Zirkler
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Sources of errors in distributed development projects: implications for collaborative tools
An important dimension of success in development projects is the quality of the new product. Researchers have primarily concentrated on developing and evaluating processes to redu...
Marcelo Cataldo
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Warrants and deception in computer mediated communication
This article explores the operation of warrants, connections between online and real-world identities, on deceptive behavior in computer-mediated communication. A survey of 132 pa...
Darcy Warkentin, Michael Woodworth, Jeffrey T. Han...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Perceptions of trustworthiness online: the role of visual and textual information
People increasingly rely on social networking websites to initiate personal and professional relationships. This requires that a considerable amount of trust be placed in stranger...
Catalina L. Toma
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Making love in the network closet: the benefits and work of family videochat
In this paper, we explore the benefits of videochat for families and the corresponding work that home users engage in to make a video call run smoothly. We explore the varieties o...
Janet Go, Joseph Kaye, Mirjana Spasojevic, Morgan ...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Determinants of wikipedia quality: the roles of global and local contribution inequality
The success of Wikipedia and the relative high quality of its articles seem to contradict conventional wisdom. Recent studies have begun shedding light on the processes contributi...
Ofer Arazy, Oded Nov
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
On the "localness" of user-generated content
The “localness” of participation in repositories of usergenerated content (UGC) with geospatial components has been cited as one of UGC’s greatest benefits. However, the deg...
Brent Hecht, Darren Gergle
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Idea expander: supporting group brainstorming with conversationally triggered visual thinking stimuli
Creativity is central to much human problem solving and innovation. Brainstorming processes attempt to leverage group creativity, but group dynamics sometimes limit their utility....
Hao-Chuan Wang, Dan Cosley, Susan R. Fussell