Skip to main content

Designing the Software Support for Partially Virtual Communities

  • Conference paper

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNISA,volume 7493)

Abstract

Designing software platforms to support the activities of partially virtual communities (PVC) is a challenging task since the supporting services must evolve continually according to the community evolution. Moreover, unsuitable supporting services usually lead the community to its demise. Therefore, these platforms must count on a flexible architecture that provides suitable services as a way to support interactions among community members, and thus contributing to keep the community sustainability. This article proposes a software architecture that helps software designers to address this challenge. Such a model can be used not only to ease the architectural design process, but also to evaluate already implemented PVC supporting systems. The article also shows a preliminary evaluation of both roles of the proposed model and discusses the obtained results.

Keywords

  • Social system architecture
  • software architecture
  • partially virtual communities
  • supporting systems

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution.

Buying options

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (Canada)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   54.99
Price excludes VAT (Canada)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   72.00
Price excludes VAT (Canada)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Benghazi, K., Noguera, M., Rodríguez-Domínguez, C., Pelegrina, A.B., Garrido, J.L.: Real-time Web Services Orchestration and Choreography. In: Proc. of the CAiSE 2010 Workshop EOMAS 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia, pp. 142–153 (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  2. Buschmann, F., Meunier, R., Rohnert, H., Sommerlad, P., Stal, M.: Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: A System of Patterns. Wiley (1996)

    Google Scholar 

  3. Chase, I.D.: Social Process and Hierarchy Formation in Small Groups: A Comparative Perspective. American Sociological Review 45(6), 905–924 (1980)

    CrossRef  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  4. Cheng, R., Vassileva, J.: Adaptive Reward Mechanism for Sustainable Online Learning Community. In: Proc. of the 2005 Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  5. Crumlish, C., Malone, E.: Designing Social Interfaces. O’Reilly, Sebastopol (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  6. Dourish, P., Bellotti, V.: Awareness and Coordination in Shared Workspaces. In: Proc. of the 1992 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (1992)

    Google Scholar 

  7. Dunbar, R.I.M.: Neocortex Size as a Constraint on Group Size in Primates. Journal of Human Evolution 22(6), 469–493 (1992)

    CrossRef  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  8. Girgensohn, A., Lee, A.: Making Web Sites Be Places for Social Interaction. In: Proc. of the 2002 ACM Conference on CSCW. ACM Press, New Orleans (2002)

    Google Scholar 

  9. Gonçalves, B., Perra, N., Vespignani, A.: Modeling Users’ Activity on Twitter Networks: Validation of Dunbar’s Number. PLoS One 6(8) (2011)

    Google Scholar 

  10. Gutierrez, F., Baloian, N., Zurita, G.: Boosting Participation in Virtual Communities. In: Vivacqua, A.S., Gutwin, C., Borges, M.R.S. (eds.) CRIWG 2011. LNCS, vol. 6969, pp. 14–29. Springer, Heidelberg (2011)

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  11. Gutierrez, F., Baloian, N., Ochoa, S.F., Zurita, G.: A Conceptual Model to Design Partially Virtual Communities. In: Proc. of the 16th IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2012), Wuhan, China, May 23 -25 (2012)

    Google Scholar 

  12. Herskovic, V., Ochoa, S.F., Pino, J.A., Neyem, A.: The Iceberg Effect: Behind the User Interface of Mobile Collaborative Systems. Journal of Universal Computer Science 17(2), 183–202 (2011)

    Google Scholar 

  13. Herskovic, V., Neyem, A., Ochoa, S.F., Pino, J.A., Antunes, P.: Understanding Presence Awareness Information Needs Among Engineering Students. In: Proc. of the 16th IEEE Int. Conf. on Comp. Sup. Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2012), China, May 23-25 (2012)

    Google Scholar 

  14. Hill, T., Supakkul, S., Chung, L.: Confirming and Reconfirming Architectural Decisions on Scalability: A Goal-Driven Simulation Approach. In: Meersman, R., Herrero, P., Dillon, T. (eds.) OTM 2009 Workshops. LNCS, vol. 5872, pp. 327–336. Springer, Heidelberg (2009)

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  15. Howard, T.: Design to Thrive: Creating Social Networks and Online Communities that Last. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  16. Hunter, M.G., Stockdale, R.: Taxonomy of online communities: Ownership and value propositions. In: Proc. of the 42nd IEEE Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Sciences (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  17. Iriberri, A., Leroy, G.: A life-cycle perspective on online community success. ACM Computing Surveys 41(2) (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  18. Kim, A.J.: Community Building on the Web. Peachpit Press, Berkeley (2000)

    Google Scholar 

  19. Kollock, P.: Design Principles for Online Communities. In: Proc. of the Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society (1996)

    Google Scholar 

  20. Lee, A., Danis, C., Miller, T., Jung, Y.: Fostering Social Interaction in Online Spaces. In: Proc. of INTERACT 2001 (2001)

    Google Scholar 

  21. Lee, F.S., Vogel, D., Moez, L.: Virtual Community Informatics: A Review and Research Agenda. Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application 5(1), 47–61 (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  22. McMillan, D.W., Chavis, D.M.: Sense of Community: A Definition and Theory. Journal of Community Psychology 14(1), 6–23 (1986)

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  23. Menascé, D.A., Almeida, V.A.F.: Capacity Planning for Web Services: Metrics, Models and Methods. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River (2001)

    Google Scholar 

  24. Mislove, A., Viswanath, B., Gummadi, K.P., Druschel, P.: You Are Who You Know: Inferring User Profiles in Online Social Networks. In: Proc. of the WSDM 2010, USA (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  25. Mousavidin, E., Goel, L.: A life cycle model of virtual communities. In: Proc. of the 42nd IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2009 (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  26. Neyem, A., Ochoa, S.F., Pino, J.A.: A Patterns System to Coordinate Mobile Groupware Applications. Group Decision and Negotiation 20(5), 563–592 (2011)

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  27. Parameswaran, M.: Social Computing: An Overview. Communications of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) 19, 762–780 (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  28. Plant, R.: Online communities. Technology in Society 26, 51–65 (2004)

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  29. Porter, C.E.: A Typology of Virtual Communities: A Multi-Disciplinary Foundation for Future Research. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 10(1) (2004)

    Google Scholar 

  30. Porter, J.: Designing for the Social Web. New Riders, Berkeley (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  31. Preece, J.: Sociability and Usability in Online Communities: Determining and Measuring Success. Behavior and Information Technology Journal 20(5), 347–356 (2001)

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  32. Preece, J., Shneiderman, B.: The reader-to-leader framework: motivating technology-mediated social participation. AIS Trans. on Human-Computer Interaction 1(1) (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  33. Ramsey, D., Beesley, K.B.: ’Perimeteritis’ and rural health in Manitoba, Canada: Perspectives from rural healthcare managers. Rural and Remote Health 7, 850 (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  34. Schümmer, T., Lukosch, S.: Patterns for Computed-Mediated Interaction. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  35. Supakkul, S., Hill, T., Chung, L., Tun, T.T., Leite, J.C.S.P.: An NFR Pattern Approach to Dealing with NFRs. In: Proc. of Requirements Engineering (RE 2010). IEEE Press (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  36. Tedjamulia, S., Olsen, D., Dean, D., Albrecht, C.: Motivating Content Contributions to Online Communities: Toward a More Comprehensive Theory. In: Proc. of IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  37. Van Duyne, D.K., Landay, J.A., Hong, K.I.: The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  38. Van Vugt, M., De Cremer, D.: Leadership in Social Dilemmas: Social Identification Effects on Collective Actions in Public Goods. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 76(4), 587–599 (1999)

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  39. Westerlund, M., Rajala, R., Nykänen, K., Järvensivu, T.: Trust and commitment in social networking - Lessons learned from two empirical studies. In: Proc. of the 25th IMP Conference, Marseille, France (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  40. Xu, L., Ziv, H., Richardson, D., Liu, Z.: Towards modeling non-functional requirements in software architecture. In: Proc. of Aspect-Oriented Software Design (AOSD 2005); Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering and Architecture Design (2005)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and Permissions

Copyright information

© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Gutierrez, F., Baloian, N., Ochoa, S.F., Zurita, G. (2012). Designing the Software Support for Partially Virtual Communities. In: Herskovic, V., Hoppe, H.U., Jansen, M., Ziegler, J. (eds) Collaboration and Technology. CRIWG 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7493. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33284-5_6

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33284-5_6

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-33283-8

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-33284-5

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)