Communicative Practices in Virtual Workspaces
The Communicative Practices in Virtual Workspaces (CPVW) lab in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering investigates emergent uses of digital technologies to coordinate work activities. The lab's work focuses on developing knowledge about novel applications and integration of digital technologies in the work of organizations — whether they are formal or ad hoc social networks. Adopting and extending ideas from human-computer interaction, technical communication, and related fields, the lab uses varied methods to explore communicative practices in virtual workspaces.
Current research topics include:
- Uses of shared web services to conduct distributed work
- Visualizations of work activity mediated by online contributor systems
- Automated detection of social behaviors based on language use
- Modeling communicative work in online systems
Publications
- Detecting Authority Bids in Online Discussions (2010)
- Designing QBox: A Tool for Sorting Things Out in Digital Spaces (2010)
- Negotiating with Angry Mastodons: The Wikipedia Policy Environment as Genre Ecology. (2010)
- "What I Know Is...": Establishing Credibility on Wikipedia Talk Pages (2010)
- Formalization and Community Investment in Wikipedia’s Regulating Texts: The Role of Essays (2009)
- Cooperative Work on the Web: Developing a Framework for Understanding what People are Doing Now with Web 2.0 Technologies (2008)
Research Groups
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