Visualizing Reciprocal and Non-ReciprocalRelationships in an Online Community

Workshop on Adaptation and Personalization for Web 2.0

Kadhambari Sankaranarayanan ; Julita Vassileva

Others  :  http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-485/paper11-F.pdf
PID  :  11517

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Online communities thrive on their members’ participation and contributions. There are numerous ways to visually represent information, current status, power, and acceptance of members in an online community. In this paper we present a design of a visualization representing reciprocal andnon-reciprocal relationships among users, which emphasizes and hopefully triggers common bond in the community. Our future goal is to see whether the visualization triggers higher participation in an online community called“WISEtales”, which currently is mostly based on common identity. If our hypothesis is confirmed, it will present one of the few examples of successfulcommunity whose members associate both by common identity and commonbond.