Title :
Designing to Attract Participation in a Niche Community for Women in Science & Engineering
Author :
Sahib, Zina ; Vassileva, Julita
Author_Institution :
Comp. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Abstract :
It is hard to start new online communities. For every success story there are many failed attempts. Researchers from social psychology and computer science have studied what drives participation in established large-scale online communities. There are also a number of books suggesting how to design for success. We investigate whether applying design principles from theory and best practices can help to start a niche community for women in science and engineering to share their personal experiences through stories.
Keywords :
human factors; psychology; social aspects of automation; computer science; large-scale online communities; niche community; social psychology; women in science and engineering; Best practices; Books; Computer science; Design engineering; Drives; Environmental management; Guidelines; Psychology; Recommender systems; Usability; communities; design; niche community; usability; user motivation; women in science and engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Science and Engineering, 2009. CSE '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5334-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3823-5
DOI :
10.1109/CSE.2009.442
