Farshchian, Babak A. Thomassen, Hanne Ekran
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Digital labor platforms are gaining in popularity in our societies. Information systems and software engineering disciplines have focused on organizational and technological aspects of these platforms, favoring the views of platform owners. At the same time, extensive knowledge of how workers use these platforms, and how they are affected by them, ...
Geiger, R. Stuart Varoquaux, Nelle Mazel-Cabasse, Charlotte Holdgraf, Chris
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Computational research and data analytics increasingly relies on complex ecosystems of open source software (OSS) “libraries” – curated collections of reusable code that programmers import to perform a specific task. Software documentation for these libraries is crucial in helping programmers/analysts know what libraries are available and how to us...
Hoeppe, Götz
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
The knowledge infrastructures of the sciences have been considered as human-made networks or ecologies of people, artifacts, and institutions that enable the production, calibration, storage, dissemination and re-use of data. Complementing these studies, this paper examines how scientists use the digitally mediated, shared availability of “natural”...
Woll, Anita Bratteteig, Tone
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
To enable elderly people to live independently in their homes, the government aims to de-institutionalize elderly care services by upscaling home care services and care housing and downscaling long-term stays at nursing homes. Increasing use of assistive technologies will play a significant role in the ongoing transformation of care services, howev...
Reuter, Christian Ludwig, Thomas Mischur, Patrick
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
On-site work of emergency service teams consists of highly cooperative tasks. Especially during distributed search and rescue tasks there is a constant mix of routinized and non-routinized activities. Within this paper we focus on the work practices of the German Red Cross Rescue Dog Units who deal with several uncertainties regarding the involved ...
Steinmacher, Igor Gerosa, Marco Conte, Tayana U. Redmiles, David F.
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
An influx of newcomers is critical to the survival, long-term success, and continuity of many Open Source Software (OSS) community-based projects. However, newcomers face many barriers when making their first contribution, leading in many cases to dropouts. Due to the collaborative nature of community-based OSS projects, newcomers may be susceptibl...
Dolata, Mateusz Schwabe, Gerhard
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Advisory service encounters evolve from providing expertise to joint problem-solving. Additionally, advisees depend on persuasion, which drives them to follow the advisor’s recommendations. However, advisors can be insufficiently equipped to persuade, resulting in advisees who are incapable of action or are unmotivated. Persuasive technology (PT) r...
Tenório, Nelson Pinto, Danieli Bjørn, Pernille
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Fixing software bug is part of the daily work routine in software engineering which requires collaboration and thus has been explored as a core CSCW domain, since the early inception of the research field. In this paper, we explore the use of chat technology in software engineering by analyzing the coordination between client and vendor in a large ...
Holeman, Isaac
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
The notion of sociomaterial practices speaks to a view of routine work in which people and materials are always already entangled. This implies that the commonsense tendency to treat concrete materials and social activity as separate analytical categories may actually muddy more than illuminate our understanding of practices. Engaging work from sci...
Alshehri, Majdah Su, Norman Makoto
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
In this paper, we report on interviews with 11 Shia content creators who create and share graphic, bloody photos of Tatbeer, a religious ritual involving self-harm practices on Ashura, the death anniversary of the prophet Muhammad’s grandson. We show how graphic images serve as an object of communication in religious practices with the local commun...
