Virtual communities have become an important new organizational form and yet relatively little is known about the conditions which lead to their success. In an attempt to address ...
More and more CoPs have chosen virtual environments and services to support their activities. However, recent research has underlined several problems: the lack of adequate scaffol...
Bernadette Charlier, France Henri, Amaury Daele, M...
This paper describes a mixed method, empirical analysis of conversation reuse in an online technical support community. I find that the same characteristics that make the conversa...
This paper proposes a multiagent based virtual community as a new means to support pervasive computing services. We give a conceptual definition of the concept of Place-Based Virt...
Tuan Nguyen, Seng Wai Loke, Torab Torabi, Hongen L...
This Research in Progress paper analyses users’ requirements for the development of a Virtual Community (VC) for the academic SAP UCC (University Competence Center) User Group. ...
Winfried Ebner, Ulrich Bretschneider, Jan Marco Le...