A buddy matching program to help build an online support network

  • Authors:
  • Nathalie Colineau

  • Affiliations:
  • CSIRO -- ICT Centre, Marsfield, NSW, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Starting a new online community can be difficult, so to help community members to get to know each other and develop a support network, we are proposing a buddy matching program, which recommends community members to each other. The recommendations are based on three social matching algorithms and include community constraints to ensure all members get recommended to someone while at the same time ensuring members are not solicited too many times.