Information Systems Success Revisited
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Using Online Conversations to Study Word-of-Mouth Communication
Marketing Science
Do online reviews matter? - An empirical investigation of panel data
Decision Support Systems
Is the Crowd's Wisdom Biased? A Quantitative Analysis of Three Online Communities
CSE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering - Volume 04
Awesome!: conveying satisfaction on the app store
Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration
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The advent of online software distribution channels like Apple Inc.'s App Store and Google Inc.'s Google Play has offered developers a single, low cost, and powerful distribution mechanism. These online stores help users discover apps as well as leave a review. Ratings and reviews add value to both the developer and potential new users by providing a crowd-sourced indicator of app quality. Hence, for developers it is important to get positive reviews and high ratings to ensure that an app has a viable future. But, what exactly do users say on these app stores? And more importantly, what is the experience that compels a user to leave either a positive or a negative rating? Our analysis of 8.7 million reviews from 17,330 apps shows that users tend to leave short, yet informative reviews, and the rating as well as the category influences the length of a review. In this preliminary study, we found that users will leave longer messages when they rate an app poorly, and the depth of feedback in certain categories is significantly higher than for other.