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DB
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Open source software adoption: motivations of adopters and amotivations of non-adopters
Adoption of an information system could be reflected in two ways: through the adoption intentions of the non-adopters and the extent of adoption for the adopters. This study seeks...
Yan Li, Chuan-Hoo Tan, Heng Xu, Hock-Hai Teo
AI50
2006
14 years 3 months ago
Intrinsically Motivated Machines
Abstract. Children seem intrinsically motivated to manipulate, to explore, to test, to learn and they look for activities and situations that provide such learning opportunities. I...
Frédéric Kaplan, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 5 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....
AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Choosing Reading Passages for Vocabulary Learning by Topic to Increase Intrinsic Motivation
: Intrinsic motivation has been shown in previous research to lead to better learning. In order to increase intrinsic motivation, REAP, a tutoring system for ESL vocabulary was enh...
Michael Heilman, Alan Juffs, Maxine Eskenazi