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2008
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Can markets help?: applying market mechanisms to improve synchronous communication
There is a growing interest in applying market mechanisms to tackle everyday communication problems such as communication interruptions and communication overload. Prior analytic ...
Gary Hsieh, Robert Kraut, Scott E. Hudson, Roberto...
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
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
Situated practices of looking: visual practice in an online world
Graphical virtual worlds are increasingly significant sites of collaborative interaction. Many argue that the simulation of the everyday environment makes them particularly effect...
Lilly Irani, Gillian R. Hayes, Paul Dourish