Abstract. Communication technologies, such as e-mail, instant messaging, discussion forums, blogs, and newsgroups connect people together, forming virtual communities. This concept...
Florian Skopik, Hong Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar
In this study, we investigated people's relationships with AIBO, a robotic pet, through 6,438 spontaneous postings in online AIBO discussion forums. Results showed that AIBO ...
Batya Friedman, Peter H. Kahn Jr., Jennifer Hagman
We present findings from our study of a music sharing and remixing community in an effort to quantify and understand the structural characteristics of commons-based peer productio...
Diversity of skills is good for society, it is also good in problem solving because different people see a problem from several perspectives, so diversity should be good for softw...
User-created media content is being increasingly shared with the communities people belong to. The content has a role of a motivator in social interaction within the communities. ...