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IIE
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Exploring Individual and Collaborative Dimensions of Knowledge Building in an Online Learning Community of Practice
Abstract. An exploratory study of students' engagement in online learning and knowledge building is presented in this paper. Learning in an online community, composed of stude...
Lina Markauskaite, Louise M. Sutherland
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
The GroceryMate: eliciting community empathy and transforming it into purposeful action
People who are homeless in the United States lack adequate amounts of nutritious food which is detrimental to their health. We are designing a grocery shopping assistance device t...
Rajasee S. Rege, Jennifer L. Allen, Eric P. Drewsk...
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Motivations to participate in online communities
A consistent theoretical and practical challenge in the design of socio-technical systems is that of motivating users to participate in and contribute to them. This study examines...
Cliff Lampe, Rick Wash, Alcides Velasquez, Elif Oz...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Load-balanced query dissemination in privacy-aware online communities
We propose a novel privacy-preserving distributed infrastructure in which data resides only with the publishers owning it. The infrastructure disseminates user queries to publishe...
Emiran Curtmola, Alin Deutsch, K. K. Ramakrishnan,...
HUC
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
It's not all about "Green": energy use in low-income communities
Personal energy consumption, specifically home energy consumption such as heating, cooling, and electricity, has been an important environmental and economic topic for decades. De...
Tawanna Dillahunt, Jennifer Mankoff, Eric Paulos, ...