Encouraging Contributions to Online Communities with Personalization and Incentives

Increasingly, online systems depend on user contributions such as posts, ratings, tags, and comments. Many of these systems wish to encourage broader participation or the contribution of higher quality content. In this doctoral consortium paper, I present past work and propose future work on underst...

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Published inUser Modeling 2007 Vol. 4511; pp. 460 - 464
Main Author Harper, F. Maxwell
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2007
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Incentives
online communities
personalization
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Summary:Increasingly, online systems depend on user contributions such as posts, ratings, tags, and comments. Many of these systems wish to encourage broader participation or the contribution of higher quality content. In this doctoral consortium paper, I present past work and propose future work on understanding user motivations to contribute online and on the use of personalization technology and incentives to shape participation.
ISBN:354073077X
9783540730774
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-73078-1_65