jonathanbishop
Enhancing the understanding of genres of web-based commun...
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To date, much research into Web-based communities has focused on the methods to enhance community building and understand those who do not participate in community life, known as lurkers. This paper explores web-based communities as a type of media, classifying types of web-based community such a...
Building Social and Economic Relationships through Avatar...
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The rise of online communities in Internet environments has set in motion an unprecedented shift in / power from vendors of goods and services to the customers who buy them, with those vendors who / understand this transfer of power and choose to capitalize on it by organizing online communities an...
Understanding and Facilitating the Development of Social ...
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Online dating is a big business, allowing people from the comfort of their own home to view and read / about potential mates all around the world. Different dating sites offer different services. However, it is / not yet commonplace for Web sites dedicated to dating to use the social networking too...
Ecological Cognition: A new dynamic for human-computer in...
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Human-computer interaction (HCI) is a field of computer science that can benefit from psychological understandings of human behaviour. During the 20th century HCI was dogged by behaviourist and cognitivist understandings of such behaviour, which led to systems that assumed that the so-called resp...
Increasing participation in online communities: A framewo...
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Online communities are becoming an accepted part of the lives of Internet users, although participation in these communities is dependent on the types of people that form them. Some of the online community’s members do not participate, people referred to as lurkers, whereas others who have been i...
The Internet for educating individuals with social impair...
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Investigates the social and practical implications of using Internet technology to deliver information relating to participation in a social situation
Machreth
scribbled: Hi Jonathan,
As someone who has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome (ASD), I found your document extremely interesting. I'm just a little confused though. Would the PARLE system have worked vi...
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