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CANDT
2009
15 years 10 months ago
wConnect: a facebook-based developmental learning community to support women in information technology
The under-representation of women in computer and information science (CIS) has created a crisis in availability of qualified CIS professionals and diversity of perspectives. Many...
Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll, Dejin Zhao, Tim...
GROUP
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Community, consensus, coercion, control: cs*w or how policy mediates mass participation
When large groups cooperate, issues of conflict and control surface because of differences in perspective. Managing such diverse views is a persistent problem in cooperative group...
Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh, David W. McDon...
GROUP
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Supporting creativity with awareness in distributed collaboration
Based on qualitative analysis of three groups collaborating on a research task in a distributed setting, we identify four breakdowns in creativity: (1) Minority ideas were under-c...
Umer Farooq, John M. Carroll, Craig H. Ganoe
ACMACE
2008
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
MPML3D: agent authoring language for virtual worlds
This paper describes an authoring language for specifying communicative behavior and interaction of agents in virtual worlds. We focus on the popular three-dimensional (3D) multi-...
Sebastian Ullrich, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishi...
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
The intermediary agent's brain: supporting learning to collaborate at the inter-personal level
We discuss the design of the Intermediary Agent's brain, the control module of an embodied conversational virtual peer in a simulation game aimed at providing learning experi...
Juan Martínez-Miranda, Bernhard Jung, Sabin...