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Online Communities and Social Computing

4th International Conference, OCSC 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011. Proceedings

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  1. A. Ant Ozok

    1. Information Systems Department, UMBC, Baltimore, USA

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  2. Panayiotis Zaphiris

    1. Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6778)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

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Table of contents (41 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. On-Line Communities and Intelligent Agents in Education and Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Promoting Reflective Learning: The Role of Blogs in the Classroom

      • Rahayu Ahmad, Wayne G. Lutters
      Pages 3-11

    3. Meet Researcher in the Real World Using the ConAR: Context-Aware Researcher

      • Sung-Wook Baek, Jong-Hoon Seo, Tack-Don Han
      Pages 12-19

    4. Gaining Insight into the Application of Second Life in a Computing Course: Students’ Perspectives

      • James Braman, Alfreda Dudley, Kidd Colt, Giovanni Vincenti, Yuanqiong Wang
      Pages 20-29

    5. Third Agers and Social Networking in Higher Education

      • Christopher M. Connolly, Gabriele Meiselwitz
      Pages 30-39

    6. A Real-time Disaster Situation Mapping System for University Campuses

      • Kayo Iizuka, Yasuki Iizuka, Kyoko Yoshida
      Pages 40-49

    7. Recent Trends in Software Support for Online Communities for Teaching and Research Projects in Higher Education

      • Daniel Kadenbach, Carsten Kleiner
      Pages 50-59

    8. Assessments in Large- and Small-Scale Wiki Collaborative Learning Environments: Recommendations for Educators and Wiki Designers

      • Portia Pusey, Gabriele Meiselwitz
      Pages 60-68

    9. Teacher Agents: The Current State, Future Trends, and Many Roles of Intelligent Agents in Education

      • Kevin Reed, Gabriele Meiselwitz
      Pages 69-78

  3. Blogs, Wikis and Twitters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Interpreting User-Generated Content: What Makes a Blog Believeable?

      • Rahayu Ahmad, Wayne G. Lutters
      Pages 81-89

    3. Extracting Events from Wikipedia as RDF Triples Linked to Widespread Semantic Web Datasets

      • Carlo Aliprandi, Francesco Ronzano, Andrea Marchetti, Maurizio Tesconi, Salvatore Minutoli
      Pages 90-99

    4. Collaborative Sensemaking during Admin Permission Granting in Wikipedia

      • Katie Derthick, Patrick Tsao, Travis Kriplean, Alan Borning, Mark Zachry, David W. McDonald
      Pages 100-109

    5. Mining Social Relationships in Micro-blogging Systems

      • Qin Gao, Qu Qu, Xuhui Zhang
      Pages 110-119

    6. Tweet Me Home: Exploring Information Use on Twitter in Crisis Situations

      • Nirupama Dharmavaram Sreenivasan, Chei Sian Lee, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh
      Pages 120-129

    7. Impact of Blog Design Features on Blogging Satisfaction: An Impression Management Perspective

      • Wee-Kek Tan, Hock-Hai Teo
      Pages 130-139

    8. An Exploratory Study of Navigating Wikipedia Semantically: Model and Application

      • I-Chin Wu, Yi-Sheng Lin, Che-Hung Liu
      Pages 140-149

  4. Social Computing in Business and the Enterprise

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Productivity Improvement by Using Social-Annotations about Design Intent in CAD Modelling Process

      • Gerardo Alducin-Quintero, Manuel Contero, Jorge Martín-Gutiérrez, David A. Guerra-Zubiaga, Michael D. Johnson
      Pages 153-161
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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011 in the framework of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011 with 10 other thematically similar conferences. The 77 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the thematic area of online communities and social computing, addressing the following major topics: on-line communities and intelligent agents in education and research; blogs, Wikis and Twitters; social computing in business and the enterprise; social computing in everyday life; information management in social computing.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Information Systems Department, UMBC, Baltimore, USA

    A. Ant Ozok

  • Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

    Panayiotis Zaphiris

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