Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 212-221

  Beenen, Gerard ^a   Ling, Kimberly ^a   Wang, Xiaoqing ^d   Chang, Klarissa ^a   Frankowski, Dan ^c   Resnick, Paul ^b   Kraut, Robert E ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Community Computing; Empirical Methods Quantitative; Social and Legal Issues; Social Computing and Social Navigation; Usability Testing and Evaluation; User Studies; Virtual Community

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; MOTIVATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

COMMUNITY COMPUTING; EMPIRICAL METHODS-QUANTITATIVE; SOCIAL AND LEGAL ISSUES; SOCIAL COMPUTING AND SOCIAL NAVIGATION; USABILITY TESTING AND EVALUATION; USER STUDIES;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 21644482622     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1031607.1031642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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