Effects of community size and contact rate in synchronous social Q&A

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2837-2846

  White, Ryen W ^a   Richardson, Matthew ^a   Liu, Yandong ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community size; Contact rate; Synchronous social Q A

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

COMMUNITY SIZE; CONTACT RATE; INSTANT MESSAGING; INTERRUPTION COSTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAILING LISTS; QUESTION AND ANSWER SYSTEM; REAL- TIME; SYNCHRONOI SOCIAL QUESTION-AND-ANSWER; WEB FORUMS;

COSTS;

EID: 79958079535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979364     Document Type: Conference Paper

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