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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 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: ...

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 ...

Independence is key to a successful transition to adulthood for all young people. However, attaining a satisfying independent life is challenge for those with autism because of qualitative differences in restricted behaviors as well as social ...

kARbon demonstrates a web-based mixed reality (MR) support and collaboration tool for a wide range of construction planning and supervising scenarios. We describe how the construction process can be supported for locally distributed workers, experts and ...

The paper describes a collaborative game to explore the different perception of presence in real world and augmented reality scenarios. The game requires players to share their expertise to collaboratively build a tower with differently colored physical ...

"iCoast -- Did the Coast Change?" is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research project that integrates crowdsourcing and citizen science techniques to develop a web application that allows interested volunteers to tag USGS oblique aerial photographs with ...

In his famous novel, Animal Farm, Orwell coined the phrase 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others' [4]. This satirical observation aptly describes many common problems which emerge in group dynamics, such as the problem of ...

We ask the question: What document infrastructures do scientists build to support their virtual organizing and documenting practices? Cyberinfrastructure (CI) is seen by many as playing a critical role in the future of social, behavioral, and economic ...

This paper introduces two artworks related to an innovative Pro bono activity, called October Sky. October Sky is a voluntary lecture series for youth in the segregated situation in Korea. It stemmed from three lines of Twitter messages, and became an ...

We discuss the problem of grammatical error correction, which has gained attention for its usefulness both in the development of tools for learners of foreign languages and as a component of statistical machine translation systems. We believe the task of ...

The goal of our research was to understand how knowledge workers use community-curated knowledge and collaboration tools in a large organization. In our study, we explored wiki use among knowledge workers in their day-to-day responsibilities. In this ...