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SIGUCCS
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Communities of practice: dare to share the knowledge
Communities of practice are not a new idea, but they are being looked at more closely as an important tool for learning and mastering knowledge challenges. Communities of practice...
Debbie Mojta
CHI
1995
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Finding and Using Implicit Structure in Human-Organized Spatial Layouts of Information
Many interfaces allow users to manipulate graphical objects, icons representing underlying data or the data themselves, against a spatial backdrop or canvas. Users take advantage ...
Frank M. Shipman III, Catherine C. Marshall, Thoma...
COGSCI
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
The Effect of Information Overlap on Communication Effectiveness
It makes sense that the more information people share, the better they communicate. To evaluate the effect of knowledge overlap on the effectiveness of communication, participants...
Shali Wu, Boaz Keysar
COGSCI
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Language Evolution by Iterated Learning With Bayesian Agents
Languages are transmitted from person to person and generation to generation via a process of iterated learning: people learn a language from other people who once learned that la...
Thomas L. Griffiths, Michael L. Kalish
COSIT
2007
Springer
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16 years 8 days ago
Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Turn Direction Concepts
This paper discusses the conceptualization of turn directions along traveled routes. Foremost, we are interested in the influence that language has on the conceptualization of turn...
Alexander Klippel, Daniel R. Montello