Anonymity Interacting with Participation on a Q&A site

International audienceThis article presents a study that investigates how anonymity influences user participation in an on-line question-and-answer platform (Quora 1). The study is one step in identifying hypotheses that can be used to address a research and design issue concerning the role of anonymity in online participation, particularly in sensitive situations where people are seeking social support. Based on the literature, we present a model that describes the factors that influence participation. These factors were used when analyzing the answers to questions in the health category on Quora. The results of this study were completed by a survey asking Quora users about their use of the anonymity feature. The main result is that the only significant difference between anonymous and non-anonymous answers is that: with anonymous answers, social appreciation correlated with the an-swer's length

France: An Ecosystem Favourable to the Development of the Sharing Economy

This chapter reports the situation of the sharing economy in France. The sharing economy has been a topic of interest in France for several years, with researchers, associations, think tanks, companies, and even the government writing reports and memos about the phenomenon and mapping the key actors of the field

ECSCW 2013 Adjunct Proceedings The 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 21 - 25. September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus

This volume presents the adjunct proceedings of ECSCW 2013.While the proceedings published by Springer Verlag contains the core of the technical program, namely the full papers, the adjunct proceedings includes contributions on work in progress, workshops and master classes, demos and videos, the doctoral colloquium, and keynotes, thus indicating what our field may become in the future

"It is Not Because You Have Tools that You Must use Them"

International audienceWe conducted a retrospective study on the experimental deployment of a telemedicine toolkit in ten nursing homes. The purpose of the experiment was to see whether the use of these toolkits could allow for better cooperation between nursing homes and the local emergency medical dispatch center to avoid sending costly vehicles and having elderly people unnecessarily discharged at the hospital. We investigated the domestication process of these toolkits by nurses and orderlies from the nursing homes. Our findings show different levels of domestication: for some of the nursing homes, the lack of practical relevance of the toolkit in emergencies and the difficulty to borrow artifacts from doctors prevented complete adoption. For three nursing homes, domestication occurred in an unexpected way in the sense that the objective of the domestication changed. These findings led us to provide recommendations for projects aimed at improving inter-organizational cooperation through artifacts

Computer-Supported Knotworking: Design Guidelines Based on Two Case Studies from the Healthcare Domain in Europe

International audienc

Strategic Management: A New Process For Decision-Making

International audienceAfter an analysis of the evolution of strategic thought, emphasizing the contribution of organizational learning theories based on resources, skills and organized training, we present a new conceptual system and model for knowledge capitalization. We present also the groupware Memo-Net and an example of its experimental use

De la domestication des technologies

International audienceHow is technology for health and autonomy appropriated, in particular when installed at the patient’s home ? According to the theoretical approach to home use presented herein, users must domesticate technology ; and this entails eventual modifications and an integration of it in everyday routines. This domestication reaches beyond the adoption or use of a technological device, whence the need to understand what the technology means to users and how it fits into their lives. This theoretical approach lets us see domestication as a process with four phases : appropriation, when the technological device is acquired by its future user ; objectification, when it finds its place in the home environment ; incorporation, when it is put to use ; and conversion, when the user is capable of telling about it.Nous posons ici la question de l’appropriation des technologies pour la santé et l’autonomie, en particulier lorsque ces technologies sont déployées au domicile des utilisateurs. Nous présentons le cadre théorique de la domestication, qui considère que la technologie doit être apprivoisée par ses utilisateurs, et que cela passe par d’éventuelles transformations et par une intégration de celle-ci dans les routines du quotidien. La domestication va plus loin que l’adoption ou l’usage des technologies, elle s’intéresse à ce que les technologies représentent pour leurs utilisateurs, au rôle qu’elles jouent dans leur vie. Ce cadre théorique propose d’aborder la domestication comme un processus en quatre étapes : l’appropriation, où le dispositif est acquis par le futur utilisateur ; l’objectification, où le dispositif trouve sa place dans l’environnement domestique ; l’incorporation, où le dispositif est mis en usage ; et, enfin, la conversion, où un discours sur la technologie peut être tenu par son utilisateur

Chapitre 18. Zoom sur les scénarios et <i>personas</i>, outils pour une conception participative

International audienc

E-santé et domicile - L'approche du Travail Coopératif Assisté par Ordinateur

International audienc