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CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months 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...
DIAGRAMS
2008
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
The Effects of Users' Background Diagram Knowledge and Task Characteristics upon Information Display Selection
Abstract. This paper explores factors associated with effective external representation (ER) use. We describe an information-processing approach to the assessment of ER knowledge. ...
Beate Grawemeyer, Richard Cox
IJCAI
2007
15 years 3 months ago
Semantic Smoothing of Document Models for Agglomerative Clustering
In this paper, we argue that the agglomerative clustering with vector cosine similarity measure performs poorly due to two reasons. First, the nearest neighbors of a document belo...
Xiaohua Zhou, Xiaodan Zhang, Xiaohua Hu
JGAA
2002
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15 years 1 months ago
Graph Layout Aesthetics in UML Diagrams: User Preferences
The merit of automatic graph layout algorithms is typically judged by their computational efficiency and the extent to which they conform to aesthetic criteria (for example, minim...
Helen C. Purchase, Jo-Anne Allder, David A. Carrin...
JASIS
2010
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15 years 11 days ago
The impact factor's Matthew Effect: A natural experiment in bibliometrics
Since the publication of Robert K. Merton’s theory of cumulative advantage in science (Matthew Effect), several empirical studies have tried to measure its presence at the level...
Vincent Larivière, Yves Gingras