Due to their characteristics and claimed advantages, several researchers have been investigating free and open-source projects. Different aspects are being studied: for instance, ...
Samuel Felix de Sousa Jr., Marco Antonio Balieiro,...
The social news aggregator Digg allows users to submit and moderate stories by voting on (digging) them. As is true of most social sites, user participation on Digg is nonuniforml...
The organization of the knowledge on the web is increasingly becoming a social task performed by online communities whose members share a common interest in classifying different t...
In this study, we investigated people's relationships with AIBO, a robotic pet, through 6,438 spontaneous postings in online AIBO discussion forums. Results showed that AIBO ...
Batya Friedman, Peter H. Kahn Jr., Jennifer Hagman
People who review products on the web invest considerable time and energy in what they write. So why would someone write a review that restates earlier reviews? Our work looks to ...