SECTION: Features
Beyond crisis couture
The practices and motivations of mask makers during the COVID-19 pandemic can teach us how to recognize our ability to individually and collectively design our futures.
By Mikayla Buford, January 2022
Articles Tagged: Computer supported cooperative work
Articles & Features
Sulá Batsú
How can solidarity shape technology? We explore the Costa Rican cooperative Sulá Batsú's feminist vision on technology, rooted in a politics of life based on care and solidarity with each other, our communities, and our planet.
By Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, July 2020
Data work and digitization
As technology and healthcare continue to commingle, data work is being redistributed as powerful professions discard unwanted tasks and other occupations are transformed.
By Claus Bossen, April 2020
Digitization in the healthcare industry
The steady advancement of information technology can be observed in many different industries, one example being healthcare. What impacts are expected and how can work life be improved? A hackathon specifically about this topic might give some answers.
By André Kochanke, April 2020
Disability-disclosure preferences and practices in online dating communities
Based on a cooperative research project, this article explores the experience of dating online with a disability, contextualized with an overview of the historical connection between disability and asexuality. It concludes with ideas for decoupling this inaccurate association through online dating platforms.
By Cynthia L. Bennett, December 2017
SECTION: Features: Incentivizing Actions and Effort
Incentives and the crowd
Crowdsourcing gives us a way to leverage the complementary strengths of humans and machines. But how do we solve the problem of low-quality crowdwork?
By Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, September 2017
SECTION: Features: Augmenting people
The future of microwork
What happens when we algorithmically break complex productivity tasks down into microtasks? At Microsoft Research, the author and her team are accelerating a shift toward microproductivity to make it easy for people to get big things done one small step at a time.
By Jaime Teevan, December 2016
SECTION: Feature: Designing the workplace of the future
Where are the flying cars?
Will the digital revolution actually transform the process of innovation? A professor from NYU spent three years with NASA's engineers and scientists to uncover the significant opportunities and challenges involved with new models for R&D work.
By Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, December 2016
Staying disciplined during an interdisciplinary degree
By Daniel W. Goldberg, December 2009
Social learning and technical capital on the social web
The social Web is a set of ties that enable people to socialize online, a phenomenon that has existed since the early days of the Internet in environments like IRC, MUDs, and Usenet (e.g. 4, 12). People used these media in much the same way they do now: to communicate with existing friends and to meet new ones. The fundamental difference was the scale, scope, and diversity of participation.
By Sarita Yardi, December 2009
Privacy challenges and solutions in the social web
Research related to online social networks has addressed a number of important problems related to the storage, retrieval, and management of social network data. However, privacy concerns stemming from the use of social networks, or the dissemination of social network data, have largely been ignored. And with more than 250 million active Facebook (http://facebook.com) users, nearly half of whom log in at least once per day [5], these concerns can't remain unaddressed for long.
By Grigorios Loukides, Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, December 2009
Don't ask me
Searching for information online has become an integral part of our everyday lives. However, sometimes we don't know the specific search terms to use, while other times, the specific information we're seeking hasn't been recorded online yet.
By Gary Hsieh, December 2009
Observations on teamwork strategies in the ACM international collegiate programming contest
By Saman Amirpour Amraii, December 2007
Virtual communities and team formation
By Yanru Zhang, Michael Weiss, September 2003