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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Beyond Wikipedia: coordination and conflict in online production groups
Online production groups have the potential to transform the way that knowledge is produced and disseminated. One of the most widely used forms of online production is the wiki, w...
Aniket Kittur, Robert E. Kraut
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Interorganizational coordination and awareness in a nonprofit ecosystem
Nonprofit organizations working with high-risk vulnerable populations such as human trafficking victims often need to engage in a significant level of interorganizational collabor...
Jennifer Stoll, W. Keith Edwards, Elizabeth D. Myn...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Social use of computer-mediated communication by adults on the autism spectrum
The defining characteristics of autism, including difficulty with nonverbal cues and need for structure, and the defining characteristics of computer-mediated communication (CMC),...
Moira Burke, Robert Kraut, Diane Williams
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Invisible emotion: information and interaction in an emergency room
Emotions are an often overlooked aspect of work since they are not included in formal work models. However, they continue provide critical information as well as be part of a rich...
Helena M. Mentis, Madhu Reddy, Mary Beth Rosson
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
An empirical study of critical mass and online community survival
There is general consensus that critical mass at inception ensures the sustained success of online communities. However, no clear understanding of what constitutes such a 'cr...
Daphne R. Raban, Mihai Moldovan, Quentin Jones
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Are you having difficulty?
It would be useful if software engineers/instructors could be aware that remote team members/students are having difficulty with their programming tasks. We have developed an appr...
Jason Carter, Prasun Dewan
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Eliciting and focusing geographic volunteer work
Open content communities such as wikis derive their value from the work done by users. However, a key challenge is to elicit work that is sufficient and focused where needed. We ...
Reid Priedhorsky, Mikhil Masli, Loren G. Terveen
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Understanding family communication across time zones
Nowadays it has become increasingly common for family members to be distributed in different time zones. These time differences pose specific challenges for communication within t...
Xiang Cao, Abigail Sellen, A. J. Bernheim Brush, D...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Lessons from thoughtswap-ing: increasing participants' coordinative agency in facilitated discussions
A successful collaborative tool designed to aid discussion must be flexible, maintain the user’s coordinative agency, and be appropriable in many contexts. We have developed a ...
Margaret Dickey-Kurdziolek, Matthew Schaefer, Debo...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Understanding deja reviewers
People who review products on the web invest considerable time and energy in what they write. So why would someone write a review that restates earlier reviews? Our work looks to ...
Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios