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Modelling User Collaboration in Social Networks Using Edits and Comments
(ACM New York, NY, USA, 2016-07-13)
Research has shown that in Q&A social networks, collaboration between respondents results in quality answers. Since good answers are required to keep any Q&A social network active, it is important to understand the ...
Complexity or simplicity? Designing product pictures for advertising in online marketplaces
(Pergamon, 2016-01-31)
In online marketplaces, many sellers highlight product and service information directly within product pictures for advertising purposes. Such a strategy increases the visual complexity of the picture and provides more ...
Providing awareness, explanation and control of personalized filtering in a social networking site
(Springer US, 2016-02-01)
Social networking sites (SNSs) have applied personalized filtering to deal with overwhelmingly irrelevant social data. However, due to the focus of accuracy, the personalized filtering often leads to “the filter bubble” ...
Does gamification work for boys and girls?: An exploratory study with a virtual learning environment
(ACM New York, NY, USA ©2015, 2015-04-13)
The development and use of Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) has increased considerably over the past decades. Following that trend, many research findings have shown the benefits of using VLE during the learning process. ...
How do you feel when you see a list of prices? the interplay among price dispersion, perceived risk and initial trust in Chinese C2C market
(Elsevier, 2015-07-31)
The issues of trust fraud, product genuineness and price dispersion jointly make Chinese C2C
buyers difficult to identify trustworthy sellers with a low price. Little is known about the
generation of initial trust when ...
Identifying Opportunities to Support Family Caregiving in Chile
(ACM New York, NY, USA ©2016, 2016-05-07)
Once older adults become less self-sufficient, one or more adult children often assume the role of family caregiver. Unfortunately, this situation is usually perceived as stressful by caregivers. To better understand this ...
Effect of Different Implicit Social Networks on Recommending Research Papers
(ACM New York, NY, USA ©2016, 2016-07-13)
Combining social network information with collaborative filtering recommendation algorithms has successfully reduced some of the drawbacks of collaborative filtering and increased the accuracy of recommendations. However, ...
Gender Difference in the Credibility Perception of Mobile Websites: A Mixed Method Approach
(ACM New York, NY, USA, 2016-07-13)
To persuade people to buy a product or service online, they must be visually convinced and attracted to use the sales website. Thus, there is need to understand how different user groups perceive various designs of websites ...
Mapping Wiki User Contribution Types to Motivations for Participation: A Case Study
(2015)
Different classifications of Wiki editor have been proposed. However, so far there
has been no mapping between user classes based on their contributions and their motivations,
which can be useful to design persuasive ...
Exploiting the Use of Wikis to Support Collaborative Writing: A Case Study of an Undergraduate Computer Science Class
(Springer International Publishing, 2015-09-22)
Use of wikis in education reflects a shift in the education paradigm from lecture and individual homework-based to a paradigm emphasizing student engagement and the construction of knowledge through collaboration and ...