Interacting with bots online: Users' reactions to actions of automated programs in Wikipedia

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 66-75

  Clément, Maxime ^a   Guitton, Matthieu J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community of practice; Human machine interactions; Online collaboration; Sociotechnical systems; Virtual community; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIRTUAL REALITY; WEBSITES;

COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE; HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION; ON-LINE COLLABORATIONS; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; WIKIPEDIA;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84927144688     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.078     Document Type: Article

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