The confusion of crowds: Non-dyadic help interactions

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 699-702

  Singh, Vandana ^a   Twidale, Michael B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Help giving; Open source software

Indexed keywords

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; TECHNICAL SUPPORT;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OPEN SYSTEMS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 77950805359     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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