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CANDT
2009
13 years 11 months ago
Supportive communication, sense of virtual community and health outcomes in online infertility groups
Women are turning to online health groups to deal with the stresses and complications of infertility. Online groups may provide a resource that is potentially absent in their face...
Jennifer L. Welbourne, Anita L. Blanchard, Marla D...
JECR
2002
144views more  JECR 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Enabling E-Commerce Growth through the Social Construction of a Virtual Community's Culture
This research paper investigates the elements that encouraged people to visit and actively participate in a virtual community, and eventually leading its guests to purchase from i...
Alexander Y. Yap
ISCC
2008
IEEE
185views Communications» more  ISCC 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Towards business model and technical platform for the service oriented context-aware mobile virtual communities
: Owing to the recent technical advances in the computing and mobile communications domain, the world of online virtual communities is experiencing a phenomenal growth and ever-inc...
Pravin Pawar, Julien Subercaze, Pierre Maret, Bert...
WEBI
2009
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
Detecting Changes over Time in a Knowledge Sharing Community
There is an establishing trend towards the socialization of the web. Virtual communities are becoming very popular web spaces for collaboration and knowledge sharing. However, stu...
Styliani Kleanthous, Vania Dimitrova
SAINT
2003
IEEE
14 years 24 days ago
Virtual Collaboration Spaces: The EVE Community
An Educational Virtual Environment (EVE) is an instance of a Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE), which focalises in providing collaborative, as well as educational, functiona...
Christos Bouras, Eri Giannaka, Thrasyvoulos Tsiats...