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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...
HICSS
2003
IEEE
167views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
14 years 19 days ago
Discovering Group Interaction Patterns in a Teachers Professional Community
Managers and group leaders of a community may not have enough information to help them direct the community development. In this paper, we adopt social network analysis, graph the...
Fu-ren Lin, Chun-Hung Chen, Kuo-Lung Tsai
ACMIDC
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Semiotics artifacts, space and community: a case study on pinholes
Given the fracturing of virtual and physical spaces, young people are less involved in their local surrounding spaces. Yet, investing the community space is related to sense of co...
Françoise Decortis, Laura Lentini
HICSS
2002
IEEE
150views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2002»
14 years 9 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
VRST
2004
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
FreeWalk/Q: social interaction platform in virtual space
We have integrated technologies related to virtual social interaction, e.g. virtual environments, visual simulations, and lifelike characters. In our previous efforts to integrate...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Toru Ishida