Collaboration platforms for virtual student communities

Author

Schubert, Petra ; Koch, Michael

Author_Institution

IAB - Inst. for Bus. Econ., FHBB - Univ. of Appl. Sci., Basel, Muttenz, Switzerland

fYear

2003

fDate

6-9 Jan. 2003

Abstract

Since its inception, the Internet has served as a virtual meeting place for people sharing common interests. These electronically supported interest groups are called virtual communities. Networked computers are used to support direct communication and indirect information exchange, and to provide awareness and matchmaking services. The use of member profiles adds a new dimension to the support of interaction between community members. Information about members is needed to introduce them to each other and empower individualized services. The paper describes the research design of two empirical platform projects, one carried out in Germany, and the other in German-speaking Switzerland. Both projects are targeted at students and their respective needs for information, interaction and exchange.

Keywords

Internet; educational computing; groupware; Internet; collaboration platforms; direct communication; information exchange; networked computers; virtual communities; virtual student communities; Collaboration; Communications technology; Computer networks; Computer science; Context; Economies of scale; Electronic commerce; Internet; Knowledge management; Sections;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2003. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1874-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2003.1174571

Filename

1174571