To stay or leave? The relationship of emotional and informational support to commitment in online health support groups

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 833-842

  Wang, Yi Chia ^a   Kraut, Robert ^a   Levine, John M ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

applied machine learning; commitment; natural language analysis; online communities; social support

Indexed keywords

COMMITMENT; EVENT HISTORY ANALYSIS; GROUP MEMBERS; INFORMATION NEED; INFORMATIONAL SUPPORT; MACHINE-LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE SUPPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

HEALTH RISKS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84863276997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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