Online communities have something in common: their success rise and fall with the participation rate of active users. In this paper we focus on social rewarding mechanisms that gen...
Users of online communities are commonly classified into active members versus lurkers. In this work we experiment with a method designed to encourage lurkers to share their acqui...
Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, Beth Brownholtz
This study investigated the effects of visualization of participation during computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL). It is hypothesized that visualization of participat...
In this paper, a social network model based on real social relationships, referred as Relation Grid, is proposed. Relation grid is isomorphic to the actual social network; hence it...
Although science is becoming increasingly collaborative, there are remarkably few success stories of online collaborations between professional scientists that actually result in ...