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Modeling Usage Of An Online Research Community, Yi Zhang
Modeling Usage Of An Online Research Community, Yi Zhang
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Although online communities have been thought of as a new way for collaboration across geographic boundaries in the scientific world, they have a problem attracting people to keep visiting. The main purpose of this study is to understand how people behave in such communities, and to build and evaluate tools to stimulate engagement in a research community. These tools were designed based on a research framework of factors that influence online participation and relationship development.
There are two main objectives for people to join an online community, information sharing and interpersonal relationship development, such as friends or colleagues. The tools …