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CRIWG
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Building Virtual Communities for Information Retrieval
The search for relevant information is often hindered by the initial difficulty in formulating precise requests, and because much knowledge is actually tacit and thus not easily ac...
Daniel Memmi, Olivier Nérot
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Multiagent Place-Based Virtual Communities for Pervasive Computing
This paper proposes a multiagent based virtual community as a new means to support pervasive computing services. We give a conceptual definition of the concept of Place-Based Virt...
Tuan Nguyen, Seng Wai Loke, Torab Torabi, Hongen L...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
191views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Business Models for Online Communities: The Case of the Virtual Worlds Industry in China
The rapid growth of Internet usage has enabled many new online communities to develop. A particularly interesting phenomenon that has arisen through Internet communities is the vi...
Ian MacInnes, Lili Hu
HICSS
2003
IEEE
124views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
14 years 25 days ago
Community Building and Virtual Teamwork in an Online Learning Environment
In the world of OTIS, an online Internet School for occupational therapists, students from four European countries were encouraged to work collaboratively through problem based le...
Martin D. Beer, Frances Slack, Gillian Armitt
HICSS
2002
IEEE
150views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2002»
14 years 15 days ago
Social Capital and Volunteerism in Virtual Communities: The Case of the Internet Chess Club
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
Mark Ginsburg, Suzanne P. Weisband