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OZCHI
2009
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
A study of email and SMS use in rural Indonesia
This paper describes a two-year research study that piloted and evaluated the use of low-cost, low-bandwidth Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to support meetings be...
Dean M. G. Hargreaves, Toni Robertson
KDD
2009
ACM
183views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
16 years 2 months ago
Financial incentives and the "performance of crowds"
The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based “crowd-sourcing” mo...
Winter A. Mason, Duncan J. Watts
JCDL
2009
ACM
121views Education» more  JCDL 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Improving historical research by linking digital library information to a global genealogical database
Journals, letters, and other writings are of great value to historians and those who research their own family history; however, it can be difficult to find writings by specific...
Douglas J. Kennard, William B. Lund, Bryan S. Mors...
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HICSS
2008
IEEE
139views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
Understanding the Roles of Knowledge Sharing and Trust in Online Learning Communities
This paper builds upon action and design research aimed at enhancing scholarly community and conversation in a graduate school setting. In this paper we focus on knowledge sharing...
Brian Thoms, Nathan Garrett, Jesus Canelon Herrera...
IAT
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
An Application of Automated Negotiation to Distributed Task Allocation
Through automated negotiation we aim to improve task allocation in a distributed sensor network. In particular, we look at a type of adaptive weather-sensing radar that permits th...
Michael Krainin, Bo An, Victor R. Lesser