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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The life and death of online gaming communities: a look at guilds in world of warcraft
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) can be fascinating laboratories to observe group dynamics online. In particular, players must form persistent associations or "guil...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee, Eric Nickell, Ro...
C5
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Language Supporting Direct Manipulation of Component-based Object Construction and Deconstruction in Collaborative Croquet Spa
We describe the language architecture of Brie, a framework for authoring 3D spaces and user interfaces. Brie is designed to take advantage of the unique social characteristics of ...
Howard Stearns, Joshua Gargus, Martin Schuetze
CGA
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Browsers to Support Awareness and Social Interaction
feel abstract and informational rather than inviting for social interaction. Consequently, newcomers and occasional visitors to such sites cannot quickly assess who the participant...
Alison Lee, Andreas Girgensohn, Jun Zhang
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Measuring the impact of third place attachment on the adoption of a place-based community technology
CoCollage is a placed-based community technology that leverages the power of online social networking to facilitate awareness and face-to-face interactions in a third place. We ad...
Shelly Farnham, Joseph F. McCarthy, Yagnesh Patel,...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Exploring social dynamics in online media sharing
It is now feasible to view media at home as easily as text-based pages were viewed when the World Wide Web (WWW) first emerged. This development has supported media sharing and se...
Martin Halvey, Mark T. Keane