The confusion of crowds: non-dyadic help interactions

  • Authors:
  • Vandana Singh;Michael B. Twidale

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Help-giving interactions in open source technical support often involve more people than the conventional help-giver help-seeker pair. Contributions include lightweight but useful me-too contributions from fellow help-seekers. Problems with the reuse of help documentation may be resolved by contextualized discussions, and those discussions themselves are found to be substantially reused.