Re-examining price as a predictor of answer quality in an online Q&A site

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 325-328

  Jeon, Grace YoungJoo ^a   Kim, Yong Mi ^a   Chen, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

information exchange; information quality; knowledge market; online community; question answering

Indexed keywords

FIELD EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; INFORMATION QUALITY; KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PRICE EFFECT; QUESTION ANSWERING;

COSTS; EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77953978559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753375     Document Type: Conference Paper

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