Encouraging Contributions to Online Communities with Personalization and Incentives

Increasingly, online systems depend on user contributions such as posts, ratings, tags, and comments. Many of these systems wish to encourage broader participation or the contribution of higher quality content. In this doctoral consortium paper, I present past work and propose future work on understanding user motivations to contribute online and on the use of personalization technology and incentives to shape participation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: UM
• Authors: F. Maxwell Harper
• Keywords: Broader Participation, Doctoral Consortium Paper, Propose Future Work, UM 2007