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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Motivations to participate in online communities
A consistent theoretical and practical challenge in the design of socio-technical systems is that of motivating users to participate in and contribute to them. This study examines...
Cliff Lampe, Rick Wash, Alcides Velasquez, Elif Oz...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Anthropomorphic visualization: a new approach for depicting participants in online spaces
Anthropomorphic visualization is a new approach to presenting historical information about participants in online spaces using the human form as the basis for the visualization. V...
Ethan Perry, Judith S. Donath
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Social capital in online communities
Online communities are connecting hordes of individuals and generating rich social network data. The social capital that resides within these networks is largely unknown. We propo...
Matthew S. Smith
HCI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Towards Building a Math Discourse Community: Investigating Collaborative Information Behavior
We reported a study that analyzes collaborative information behavior of small groups in an online math discourse community. Taking group as the unit of analysis, we analyzed the so...
Nan Zhou, Gerry Stahl
GROUP
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Spreading the honey: a system for maintaining an online community
As online communities, such as social network sites, mature, they face challenges in sustaining user engagement. To address this, we designed and deployed a rating system to encou...
Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, Beth Brownholtz