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2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Collaborative virtual environments for supporting learning communities: an experience of use
In this paper we present the experiences of usage of Viras, a collaborative virtual environment for social awareness support in educational settings. Collaborative Virtual environ...
Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland, Monica Divitin...
CSCW
2004
ACM
13 years 11 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...
JCAL
1998
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13 years 5 months ago
Design issues of a distance learning course on Business on the Internet
The paper presents the main design issues of a distance learning course on Business on the Internet. The instructional design is based on a learner centered instructional stratedy...
Krassen Stefanov, Svetoslav Stoyanov, Roumen Nikol...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Can software agents influence human relations?: balance theory in agent-mediated communities
We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Satoshi Nakazawa, Toru Ishida,...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Load-balanced query dissemination in privacy-aware online communities
We propose a novel privacy-preserving distributed infrastructure in which data resides only with the publishers owning it. The infrastructure disseminates user queries to publishe...
Emiran Curtmola, Alin Deutsch, K. K. Ramakrishnan,...