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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...
PVLDB
2008
107views more  PVLDB 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
XTreeNet: democratic community search
We describe XTreeNet, a distributed query dissemination engine which facilitates democratization of publishing and efficient data search among members of online communities with p...
Emiran Curtmola, Alin Deutsch, Dionysios Logotheti...
HICSS
2006
IEEE
139views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Projecting Computational Sense of Self: A Study of Transition in a Chronic Illness Online Community
We report on analysis of discussions in an online community of people with chronic illness using socio-cognitively motivated, automatically produced semantic spaces. The analysis ...
Robert McArthur, Peter Bruza, Jim Warren, Debbie K...
CANDT
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Overhearing the crowd: an empirical examination of conversation reuse in a technical support community
This paper describes a mixed method, empirical analysis of conversation reuse in an online technical support community. I find that the same characteristics that make the conversa...
Derek L. Hansen
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
184views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
14 years 13 days 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,...