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HICSS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
The Impact of Social Types within Information Communities: Findings from Technical Newsgroups
We explored whether Fisher and Durrance’s [11] framework of information communities applies to online technical newsgroups and the impact of particular social types on informati...
Tammara Combs Turner, Karen E. Fisher
EDUTAINMENT
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Designing Social Navigation for a Virtual Community of Practice
Abstract. Social navigation in a community of practice (CoP) is an approach of locating information through increased social awareness. Designing support for social navigation requ...
Wen Xu, Karel Kreijns, Jun Hu
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Talk to me: foundations for successful individual-group interactions in online communities
People come to online communities seeking information, encouragement, and conversation. When a community responds, participants benefit and become more committed. Yet interactions...
Jaime Arguello, Brian S. Butler, Elisabeth Joyce, ...
HCI
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Instant Online Communities as a Means to Foster Conferences
Abstract. In this paper we introduce an instant online community (IOC) solution as an add-on for existing websites. The IOC enables social interaction between the main content prov...
Martin Christof Kindsmüller, Jan Milz, Johann...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
181views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
Motivating Content Contributions to Online Communities: Toward a More Comprehensive Theory
This paper extends previous research by proposing a model that can help explain ways to motivate member contributions to online communities (OCs). New features in the model will a...
Steven J. J. Tedjamulia, Douglas L. Dean, David R....