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CSCW
2008
ACM
15 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
CLUSTER
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
24/7 Characterization of petascale I/O workloads
Abstract--Developing and tuning computational science applications to run on extreme scale systems are increasingly complicated processes. Challenges such as managing memory access...
Philip H. Carns, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Ka...
WSDM
2012
ACM
283views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
14 years 2 months ago
The life and death of online groups: predicting group growth and longevity
We pose a fundamental question in understanding how to identify and design successful communities: What factors predict whether a community will grow and survive in the long term?...
Sanjay Ram Kairam, Dan J. Wang, Jure Leskovec
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Egalitarians at the gate: one-sided gatekeeping practices in social media
Although Wikipedia has increasingly attracted attention for its in-depth and timely coverage of breaking news stories, the social dynamics of how Wikipedia editors process breakin...
Brian Keegan, Darren Gergle
HICSS
2009
IEEE
134views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Bridging Socio-Technical Capital in an Online Learning Environment
This work is based on the premise that online learning environments can potentially help develop communities of scholars by enabling participants to discover persons and resources...
Daniel D. Suthers, Kar-Hai Chu, Samuel Joseph