Think different: Increasing online community participation using uniqueness and group dissimilarity

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 631-638

  Ludford, Pamela J ^a   Cosley, Dan ^a   Frankowski, Dan ^a   Terveen, Loren ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Online communities; Recommender systems; Similarity; Social psychology; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SYNCHRONIZATION; WEBSITES;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK (CSCW); ONLINE COMMUNITIES; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNIQUENESS;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

EID: 4544231477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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