Groupware and social dynamics: eight challenges for developers
Communications of the ACM
Lurker demographics: counting the silent
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Communities in Cyberspace
Online communities: focusing on sociability and usability
The human-computer interaction handbook
The active lurker: influence of an in-house online community on its outside environment
GROUP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Friendster and publicly articulated social networking
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Adaptive Reward Mechanism for Sustainable Online Learning Community
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Supporting Learning through Intelligent and Socially Informed Technology
Talk amongst yourselves: inviting users to participate in online conversations
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
A Rule-Based Recommender System for Online Discussion Forums
AH '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
CSCL'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computer supported collaborative learning - Volume 2
Evolution of Professional Ethics Courses from Web Supported Learning towards E-Learning 2.0
EC-TEL '09 Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning: Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines
Motivating participation in social computing applications: a user modeling perspective
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
SocConnect: A personalized social network aggregator and recommender
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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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.