Effectiveness of spatial representation in the formation of network communities: Experimental study on community organizer

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 739-759

  Kamei, Koji ^a   Fujita, Kunihiko ^a   Jettmar, Eva ^b   Yoshida, Sen ^a   Kuwabara, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities of interests; Community formation; Community support; Empirical study; Network community; Socialware; User interface

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; USER INTERFACES;

NETWORK COMMUNITIES;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 0036890834     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-5438(02)00017-6     Document Type: Article

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