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INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Stimulating Participation in Wireless Community Networks
—Wireless Community Networks (WCNs) are wide-area wireless networks whose nodes are owned and managed by volunteers. We focus on the provision of Internet access to mobile users ...
Elias C. Efstathiou, Pantelis A. Frangoudis, Georg...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Motivations to participate in online communities
A consistent theoretical and practical challenge in the design of socio-technical systems is that of motivating users to participate in and contribute to them. This study examines...
Cliff Lampe, Rick Wash, Alcides Velasquez, Elif Oz...
HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
It's not all about "Green": energy use in low-income communities
Personal energy consumption, specifically home energy consumption such as heating, cooling, and electricity, has been an important environmental and economic topic for decades. De...
Tawanna Dillahunt, Jennifer Mankoff, Eric Paulos, ...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Imprint, a community visualization of printer data: designing for open-ended engagement on sustainability
We introduce Imprint, a casual information visualization kiosk that displays data extracted from a printer queue. We designed the system to be open-ended, and to support a workgro...
Zachary Pousman, Hafez Rouzati, John T. Stasko
CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Virtual gifts and guanxi: supporting social exchange in a chinese online community
Significant cultural differences persist between East and West. Software systems that have been proven to operate efficiently within one culture can fail in the context of the oth...
Jiang Yang, Mark S. Ackerman, Lada A. Adamic