Collaborative problem solving: A study of mathoverflow

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 355-367

  Tausczik, Yla R ^a   Kittur, Aniket ^a   Kraut, Robert E ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Problem solving; Q A sites; Scientific collaboration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING; COLLABORATIVE STRATEGIES; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; CROWDSOURCING; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATION; MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM SOLVING; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; SOLUTION QUALITY;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84898941440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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