Design lessons from the fastest Q&A site in the west

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2857-2866

  Mamykina, Lena ^a   Manoim, Bella ^b   Mittal, Manas ^c   Hripcsak, George ^a   Hartmann, Björn ^c  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixed methods analysis; Q A

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

DESIGN TEAM; METHOD ANALYSIS; MIXED METHOD; MIXED METHOD ANALYSE; PAPER ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; Q&A; STACK OVERFLOW; STATISTICAL DATA ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL DESIGN;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 79958132753     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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