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CSCW
2008
ACM
15 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
15 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
15 years 8 months ago
EatWell: sharing nutrition-related memories in a low-income community
Low-income African American communities face a disproportionate amount of diet-related health problems in the United States. To address this issue, we developed EatWell, a system ...
Andrea Grimes, Martin Bednar, Jay David Bolter, Re...
CSCW
2008
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Game design principles in everyday fitness applications
The global obesity epidemic has prompted our community to explore the potential for technology to play a stronger role in promoting healthier lifestyles. Although there are severa...
Taj Campbell, Brian Ngo, James Fogarty
CSCW
2008
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
Wikipedia's success is often attributed to involving large numbers of contributors who improve the accuracy, completeness and clarity of articles while reducing bias. However...
Aniket Kittur, Robert E. Kraut