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EDUTAINMENT
2006
Springer
13 years 8 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
CSCW
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities
Under-contribution is a problem for many online communities. Social psychology theories of social loafing and goal-setting can provide mid-level design principles to address this ...
Gerard Beenen, Kimberly S. Ling, Xiaoqing Wang, Kl...
KES
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Virtual Communities of Practice's Purpose Evolution Analysis Using a Concept-Based Mining Approach
Today, social networks systems have become more and more important. People have change their way to relate and communicate. Therefore, how to enhance contents and organization of a...
Sebastián A. Ríos, Felipe Aguilera, ...
DIGITALCITIES
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Visualizing Social Patterns in Virtual Environments on a Local and Global Scale
Today a wide variety of virtual worlds, cities, gaming environments etc. exist and become part of life of their human inhabitants. However, our understanding on how technology infl...
Katy Börner, Shashikant Penumarthy, Bonnie Je...
CSCW
2004
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Community-Building with Web-Based Systems - Investigating a Hybrid Community of Students
This paper examines WiInf-Central, the `virtual homeplace' of a student community (on Information Systems) at the University of Hamburg, and focuses on processes of social ide...
Markus Rohde, Leonard Reinecke, Bernd Pape, Moniqu...