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CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 2 days ago
Think different: increasing online community participation using uniqueness and group dissimilarity
Online communities can help people form productive relationships. Unfortunately, this potential is not always fulfilled: many communities fail, and designers don't have a sol...
Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Lor...
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
How peer photos influence member participation in online communities
Online communities (OLCs) are gatherings of like -minded people, brought together in cyberspace by shared interests. Creating such communities is not a big challenge; sustaining m...
Nishikant Kapoor, Joseph A. Konstan, Loren G. Terv...
APSEC
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Supporting Knowledge Collaboration Using Social Networks in a Large-Scale Online Community of Software Development Projects
The scale-free network shown in the small world phenomenon indicates that our human society consists of a small number of people who play the role of hubs linked with many nodes (...
Masao Ohira, Tetsuya Ohoka, Takeshi Kakimoto, Naok...
PERSUASIVE
2007
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Social Comparisons to Motivate Contributions to an Online Community
It is increasingly common for online communities to rely on members rather than editors to contribute and moderate content. To motivate members to perform these tasks, some sites d...
F. Maxwell Harper, Sherry Xin Li, Yan Chen, Joseph...
ICWL
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Enhancing the Social Capital of Learning Communities by Using an Ad Hoc Transient Communities Service
In online learning, communities can help to enhance learning. However, because of the dynamic nature of communities, attaining and sustaining these communities can be difficult. On...
Sibren Fetter, Adriana J. Berlanga, Peter B. Sloep