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HCI
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Cooperation and Competition Dynamics in an Online Game Community
Cooperation and competition are important subjects in social and economical studies. Similar dynamics exists in large-scale online communities. In this paper, we present a quantita...
Ruixi Yuan, Li Zhao, Wenyu Wang
BCSHCI
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Personality traits, usage patterns and information disclosure in online communities
Online communities of different types have become an important part of the daily internet life of many people within the last couple of years. Both research and business have show...
Johann Schrammel, Christina Köffel, Manfred T...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
151views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
15 years 11 months ago
Matching Schemas in Online Communities: A Web 2.0 Approach
When integrating data from multiple sources, a key task that online communities often face is to match the schemas of the data sources. Today, such matching often incurs a huge wor...
Robert McCann, Warren Shen, AnHai Doan
CHI
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Motivating participation by displaying the value of contribution
One of the important challenges faced by designers of online communities is eliciting sufficent contributions from community members. Users in online communities may have difficul...
Al Mamunur Rashid, Kimberly S. Ling, Regina D. Tas...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
134views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Social Network Behavior, Thought-Leaders and Knowledge Building in an Online Learning Community
This paper investigates the relationship between student role-behavior and position in a Social Network and the processes of creating sustained collaborative knowledge building in...
Jim Waters