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HICSS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Understanding the Roles of Knowledge Sharing and Trust in Online Learning Communities
This paper builds upon action and design research aimed at enhancing scholarly community and conversation in a graduate school setting. In this paper we focus on knowledge sharing...
Brian Thoms, Nathan Garrett, Jesus Canelon Herrera...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 23 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...
HICSS
2002
IEEE
155views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2002»
14 years 13 days ago
Towards Knowledge-Sharing and Learning in Virtual Professional Communities
This paper describes a program of research designed to understand how knowledge-sharing and learning can be supported in virtual communities. To conduct this research, we propose ...
Michael Bieber, Il Im, Ronald E. Rice, Ricki Goldm...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Converging on a science of design through the synthesis of design methodologies
The goals of this workshop are: (1) to bring together the community of researchers who are exploring innovative design theories and different design methodologies; (2) to evaluate...
Gerhard Fischer, Elisa Giaccardi, Yunwen Ye, Chris...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Expertise networks in online communities: structure and algorithms
Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
Jun Zhang, Mark S. Ackerman, Lada A. Adamic