Online Communities data is prevalent in CSCW research, but the approaches to collecting, managing, analyzing and visualizing large scale social data varies on a lab by lab basis. The OCData hackathon is aimed at creating a community opportunity to share ...

Interest in collaborative editing (CE) has seen a dramatic rise in recent years. The ubiquity of cloud services, crowdsourcing, and mobile devices means that today's Internet citizens are increasingly accustomed to producing and editing data in a shared ...

Businesses increasingly accomplish work through innovative sourcing models that leverage the crowd. As a new way of distributing work across units within an organization and as a form of outsourcing work beyond organizational boundaries, crowdwork is ...

Open, online learning environments, such as massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open learning communities have been promoted as a way to expand equitable access to quality education. Such learning experiences are potentially enriched via extensive ...

Understanding how collaborative systems are used across countries and cultures is increasingly important to the success of these systems and to the CSCW research community. Studies aiming to examine cross-cultural phenomena, however, must overcome a ...

When developing new ICT systems and applications for domestic environments, rich qualitative approaches improve the understanding of the user's integral usage of technology in their daily routines and thereby inform design. This knowledge will often be ...

This one-day workshop aims to stimulate research on the sharing and reuse of scientific resources in cooperative scientific work. As science trends toward increasing geographic and temporal scales, larger collaborations, and greater interdisciplinarity, ...

The Family Room is a multi-camera, multi-display media space for families. It allows family members to easily share audio and video connections between multiple devices across different households. This is ideal for connecting grandchildren and ...

This video details the development of an intelligent outdoor guide robot. The main objective is to deploy an innovative robotic guide which is not only able to show information, but to react to the affective states of the users, and to offer location-...

Shared geocaching is an outdoor activity where pairs of individuals geocache together but in different locations. Video streaming allows two players to see each remote person's view and converse during the activity. This allows players to help each ...

A growing trend is the participation in online fandom communities through the support of the blogging platform Tumblr. We investigated Tumblr fandom users' motivations behind participating in fandoms, and how they interacted within the Tumblr community. ...

The BBC, New York Times and other media channels are abuzz with reports about Mark Zuckerberg's desire to connect everyone on the planet through social media. Missing from these online articles are reports of the realities "bottom of the pyramid" users ...

My project is a field study of scientific practice in land change science (LCS). Through observations, interviews and documents, my research investigates the impact and role of the meta-study as a tool of scientific knowledge creation. Data from my ...

Open-source communities can be seen as knowledge-sharing ecosystems: participants learn from the community and from one another, and share their knowledge through contributions to the source code repositories or by offering support to users. With the ...

My dissertation work focuses on increasing students' perceptions of family support as they adjust to college, a challenging and often stressful life transition. This project draws on research in social support, college transitions, emerging adulthood, ...

My research is focused on computer support for community-based monitoring, at the intersection of citizen science, volunteered geographic information (VGI), and mobile crowdsourcing. Local-scale volunteer monitoring programs face a particular tension: ...

Industries are increasingly encouraging human-robot collaboration to complete tasks. As robots become more ubiquitous in these environments, robots will need an appropriate understanding of the social behaviors necessary to work alongside humans. The ...

Computer-support for peer review has been mostly limited to facilitating traditional reviewing processes and remedying scalability issues. My research aims to inform the design of future scientific peer review processes and the systems that support them ...

Mobile social matching systems have the potential to transform the way we make new social ties. Yet, there are many challenges as to how systems could utilize contextual data to support serendipitous introductions between strangers. I investigate how ...

This research statement emphasizes the need to understand the challenges, outcomes, and implications of designing information displays to support ad hoc, interdisciplinary teams during emergency medical situations. The outcomes of this research have ...