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CSCW
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities
Under-contribution is a problem for many online communities. Social psychology theories of social loafing and goal-setting can provide mid-level design principles to address this ...
Gerard Beenen, Kimberly S. Ling, Xiaoqing Wang, Kl...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The social honeypot project: protecting online communities from spammers
We present the conceptual framework of the Social Honeypot Project for uncovering social spammers who target online communities and initial empirical results from Twitter and MySp...
Kyumin Lee, James Caverlee, Steve Webb
KBSE
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Utilizing Firm-Hosted Online Communities: Research challenges and needs
The increased popularity of Firm-Hosted Online Communities (FOC) has initiated a radical transformation of customer-producer relationships in many industries with important implic...
Sami Jantunen, Kari Smolander, Sanna Malinen, Tytt...
HCI
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Instant Online Communities as a Means to Foster Conferences
Abstract. In this paper we introduce an instant online community (IOC) solution as an add-on for existing websites. The IOC enables social interaction between the main content prov...
Martin Christof Kindsmüller, Jan Milz, Johann...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
Matching Schemas in Online Communities: A Web 2.0 Approach
When integrating data from multiple sources, a key task that online communities often face is to match the schemas of the data sources. Today, such matching often incurs a huge wor...
Robert McCann, Warren Shen, AnHai Doan