Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
The user-centered iterative design of collaborative writing software
CHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
KidPad: collaborative storytelling for children
CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Reviewing Practices in Collaborative Writing
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Studying cooperation and conflict between authors with history flow visualizations
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Computer support for children's collaborative fantasy play and storytelling
CSCL '99 Proceedings of the 1999 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Leadership in online creative collaboration
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
What's mine is mine: territoriality in collaborative authoring
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Predicting successful completion of online collaborative animation projects
Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition
Finding social roles in Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Don't bite the newbies: how reverts affect the quantity and quality of Wikipedia work
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Plugged in to the community: social motivators in online goal-setting groups
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
Tracking changes in collaborative writing: edits, visibility and group maintenance
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Massively distributed authorship of academic papers
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Redistributing leadership in online creative collaboration
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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In story writing, the diverse perspectives of the crowd could support an author's search for the perfect character, setting, or plot. However, structuring crowd collaboration is challenging. Too little structure leads to unfocused, sprawling narratives, and too much structure stifles creativity. Motivated by the idea that individual creative leaders and the crowd have complementary creative strengths, we present an approach where a leader directs the high-level vision for a story and articulates creative constraints for the crowd. This approach is embodied in Ensemble, a novel collaborative story-writing platform. In a month-long short story competition, over one hundred volunteer users on the web started over fifty short stories using Ensemble. Leaders used the platform to direct collaborator work by establishing creative goals, and collaborators contributed meaningful, high-level ideas to stories through specific suggestions. This work suggests that asymmetric creative contributions may support a broad new class of creative collaborations.