Abstract
A hard challenge facing developers of online communities is attaining a critical mass of members and subsequently sustaining their participation. We propose a new mechanism for motivating participation in interest-based online communities, which engages non-contributing members (lurkers) by modeling and visualizing the asymmetrical relations formed when reading, evaluating, or commenting other community members' contributions. The mechanism is based on ideas from open user modeling, a new concept of "community energy," with a mechanism of rating contributions and visualizing the rank of contributions in the community interface. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.
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Webster, A., & Vassileva, J. (2006). Visualizing personal relations in online communities. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4018 LNCS, pp. 223–233). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11768012_24
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