People increasingly share online information with the communities they belong to. This paper presents an empirical field study of four communities on how they interact with collec...
This paper is concerned with affective issues in learning technologies in a collaborative context. Traditionally in learning there has been a division between cognition and affect...
We have implemented a novel peer-to-peer based environment called Comtella, which allows students to contribute and share class-related resources. This system has been implemented ...
Peer production systems rely on users to self-select appropriate tasks and “scratch their personal itch”. However, many such systems require significant maintenance work, whic...
Aniket Kittur, Bryan A. Pendleton, Robert E. Kraut
A trust metric is a technique for predicting how much a user of a social network might trust another user. This is especially beneficial in situations where most users are unknown ...