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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 1 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...
ICALT
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Cultivating a Landscape of Online Places for a Developmental Learning Community
We describe our work on seeding and building a developmental learning community for recruiting and retaining women in educational programs and careers related to computing and inf...
Mary Beth Rosson, Hansa Sinha, Dejin Zhao, John M....
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Project massive: a study of online gaming communities
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) continue to be a popular and lucrative sector of the gaming market. Project Massive was created to assess MMOG players’ social experie...
A. Fleming Seay, William J. Jerome, Kevin Sang Lee...
ITRUST
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Analyzing Correlation between Trust and User Similarity in Online Communities
Abstract. Past evidence has shown that generic approaches to recommender systems based upon collaborative filtering tend to poorly scale. Moreover, their fitness for scenarios su...
Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Georg Lausen
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Load-balanced query dissemination in privacy-aware online communities
We propose a novel privacy-preserving distributed infrastructure in which data resides only with the publishers owning it. The infrastructure disseminates user queries to publishe...
Emiran Curtmola, Alin Deutsch, K. K. Ramakrishnan,...