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Summary: To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM CHI'96 Conference
Do-I-Care: A Collaborative Web Agent
Brian Starr
Mark S. Ackerman
Michael Pazzani
Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
{bstarr, ackerman, pazzani}@ics.uci.edu
http://www.ics.uci.edu/CORPS/dica.html
ABSTRACT
Social filtering and collaborative resource discovery
mechanisms often fail because of the extra burden, even
tiny, placed on the user. This work proposes an innovative
World Wide Web agent that uses a model of collaboration
that leverages the natural incentives for individual users to
easily provide for collaborative work.
KEYWORDS: computer-supported cooperative work,
CSCW, social filtering, collaboration, World Wide Web
INTRODUCTION
Collaborative efforts to discover Internet resources, such as
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