TY - GEN
T1 - Finding your way with CampusWiki
T2 - 25th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007
AU - Schuler, Richard P.
AU - Laws, Nathaniel
AU - Bajaj, Sameer
AU - Grandhi, Sukeshini A.
AU - Jones, Quentin
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Wikis provide a simple and unique approach to collaborative authoring, allowing any member of the community to contribute new, or change existing information. However, Wikis are typically disconnected from the physical context of users who are utilizing or creating content, resulting in suboptimal support for geographic communities. In addition, geographic communities might find the highly skewed generation of content by a few individuals problematic. Here we present research into addressing these challenges through location-awareness and lightweight user content rating mechanisms. We describe one such location-aware Wiki, CampusWiki and initial results from a field study demonstrating the value of location-linked content and the rating approach. We conclude with a discussion of design implications.
AB - Wikis provide a simple and unique approach to collaborative authoring, allowing any member of the community to contribute new, or change existing information. However, Wikis are typically disconnected from the physical context of users who are utilizing or creating content, resulting in suboptimal support for geographic communities. In addition, geographic communities might find the highly skewed generation of content by a few individuals problematic. Here we present research into addressing these challenges through location-awareness and lightweight user content rating mechanisms. We describe one such location-aware Wiki, CampusWiki and initial results from a field study demonstrating the value of location-linked content and the rating approach. We conclude with a discussion of design implications.
KW - Collaborative authoring
KW - Location-awareness
KW - Wiki
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U2 - 10.1145/1240866.1241055
DO - 10.1145/1240866.1241055
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:35348827865
SN - 1595936424
SN - 9781595936424
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 2639
EP - 2644
BT - SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 Extended Abstracts
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 28 April 2007 through 3 May 2007
ER -