Communications of the ACM
Empathic communities: reaching out across the Web
interactions
CSCW '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Item-based collaborative filtering recommendation algorithms
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Making web sites be places for social interaction
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Stimulating social engagement in a community network
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Is seeing believing?: how recommender system interfaces affect users' opinions
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information Systems Research
Design Principles for Online Communities: Lessons from Early Settlements
VRAIS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS '97)
Studying the effect of similarity in online task-focused interactions
GROUP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
How oversight improves member-maintained communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How peer photos influence member participation in online communities
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Social matching: A framework and research agenda
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Insert movie reference here: a system to bridge conversation and item-oriented web sites
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designing for Social Data Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
SuggestBot: using intelligent task routing to help people find work in wikipedia
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Talk amongst yourselves: inviting users to participate in online conversations
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
GROUP '07 Doctoral Consortium papers
Online Communities: A Social Computing Perspective
PAISI, PACCF and SOCO '08 Proceedings of the IEEE ISI 2008 PAISI, PACCF, and SOCO international workshops on Intelligence and Security Informatics
A life-cycle perspective on online community success
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Sharescape: an interface for place annotation
Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges
Creating a conversational context through video blogging: A case study of Geriatric1927
Computers in Human Behavior
Challenges in supporting end-user privacy and security management with social navigation
Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Metacommunication Patterns in Online Communities
OCSC '09 Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Using social visualization to motivate social production
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia - Special section on communities and media computing
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Effects of popularity and quality on the usage of query suggestions during information search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Opinion space: a scalable tool for browsing online comments
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Chinese online communities: balancing managementcontrol and individual autonomy
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Collaborative filtering recommender systems
The adaptive web
User-centred design approach for a community website with social software
OCSC'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Online communities and social computing
Information Polity - Government 2.0: Making Connections between citizens, data and government
User experience (UX) patterns for audio-visual networked applications: inspirations for design
Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries
Towards communities of practice for mashups
Proceedings of the 3rd and 4th International Workshop on Web APIs and Services Mashups
Forget online communities?: revisit cooperative work!
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Effects of community size and contact rate in synchronous social q&a
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Web Wisdom: An essay on how Web 2.0 and Semantic Web can foster a global knowledge society
Computers in Human Behavior
Incentivizing the ASL-STEM forum
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Digital library 2.0 for educational resources
TPDL'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Theory and practice of digital libraries: research and advanced technology for digital libraries
Interface and interaction design for group and social recommender systems
Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Recommender systems
Boosting participation in virtual communities
CRIWG'11 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Collaboration and technology
Learning with personalized recommender systems: A psychological view
Computers in Human Behavior
Jiminy: a scalable incentive-based architecture for improving rating quality
iTrust'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Trust Management
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Towards adaptive recruitment and engagement mechanisms in social systems
UMAP'11 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advances in User Modeling
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
What to Tell About Me? Self-Presentation in Online Communities
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Proceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on Design of communication
Distinguishing topical and social groups based on common identity and bond theory
Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Using edit sessions to measure participation in wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Personality-targeted design: theory, experimental procedure, and preliminary results
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Sustaining Web 2.0 services: A survival analysis of a live crowd-casting service
Decision Support Systems
Community insights: helping community leaders enhance the value of enterprise online communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CommunityCompare: visually comparing communities for online community leaders in the enterprise
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
No country for old members: user lifecycle and linguistic change in online communities
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Should your MOOC forum use a reputation system?
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Geographical and organizational distances in enterprise crowdfunding
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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Online communities can help people form productive relationships. Unfortunately, this potential is not always fulfilled: many communities fail, and designers don't have a solid understanding of why. We know community activity begets activity. The trick, however, is to inspire participation in the first place. Social theories suggest methods to spark positive community participation. We carried out a field experiment that tested two such theories. We formed discussion communities around an existing movie recommendation web site, manipulating two factors: (1) similarity-we controlled how similar group members' movie ratings were; and (2) uniqueness-we told members how their movie ratings (with respect to a discussion topic) were unique within the group. Both factors positively influenced participation. The results offer a practical success story in applying social science theory to the design of online communities.