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Online Communities and Social Computing

5th International Conference, OCSC 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. A. Ant Ozok

    1. School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, UMBC, Department of Information Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

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  2. Panayiotis Zaphiris

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

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8029)

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

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Table of contents (49 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. User Behaviour and Experience in On-Line Social Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. User Generated Content: An Analysis of User Behavior by Mining Political Tweets

      • Rocío Abascal-Mena, Erick López-Ornelas, J. Sergio Zepeda-Hernández
      Pages 3-12

    3. Well-Being’s Predictive Value

      • Margeret Hall, Simon Caton, Christof Weinhardt
      Pages 13-22

    4. You Are Not Alone Online: A Case Study of a Long Distance Romantic Relationship Online Community

      • Yurong He, Kari Kraus, Jennifer Preece
      Pages 23-32

    5. Motivations of Facebook Users for Responding to Posts on a Community Page

      • Fei-Hui Huang
      Pages 33-39

    6. Quantifying Cultural Attributes for Understanding Human Behavior on the Internet

      • Santosh Kumar Kalwar, Kari Heikkinen, Jari Porras
      Pages 40-49

    7. Assessing the Possibility of a Social e-Book by Analyzing Reader Experiences

      • Seyeon Lee, Jea In Kim, Chung-Kon Shi
      Pages 50-57

    8. Exploratory Study on Online Social Networks User from SASANG Constitution-Focused on Korean Facebook Users

      • Joung Youn Lee, Hyun Suk Kim, Eun Jung Choi, Soon Jung Choi
      Pages 58-66

    9. Readability Assessment of Policies and Procedures of Social Networking Sites

      • Gabriele Meiselwitz
      Pages 67-75

    10. Online Idea Contests: Identifying Factors for User Retention

      • Stefan Richter, Stefan Perkmann Berger, Giordano Koch, Johann Füller
      Pages 76-85

    11. What Motivates People Use Social Tagging

      • Ning Sa, Xiaojun Yuan
      Pages 86-93

    12. Understanding Social Network Sites (SNSs) Preferences: Personality, Motivation, and Happiness Matters

      • Yuanyuan Shi, Xitong Yue, Jin He
      Pages 94-103

    13. Influence of Monetary and Non-monetary Incentives on Students’ Behavior in Blended Learning Settings in Higher Education

      • Stefan Stieglitz, Annika Eschmeier, Michael Steiner
      Pages 104-112

    14. Eye Tracking Analysis of User Behavior in Online Social Networks

      • Wan Adilah Wan Adnan, Wan Nur Hafizhoh Hassan, Natrah Abdullah, Jamaliah Taslim
      Pages 113-119

    15. Who Are Seeking Friends? The Portrait of Stranger-Seeker in Social Network Sites

      • Xitong Yue, Yuanyuan Shi, Huajian Cai
      Pages 120-125

  3. Learning and Gaming Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. The Effect of Leaderboard Ranking on Players’ Perception of Gaming Fun

      • Charles Butler
      Pages 129-136

    3. Using Facebook for Collaborative Academic Activities in Education

      • Habib M. Fardoun, Bassam Zafar, Antonio Paules Ciprés
      Pages 137-146

    4. Improvement of Students Curricula in Educational Environments by Means of Online Communities and Social Networks

      • Habib M. Fardoun, Abdulrahman H. Altalhi, Antonio Paules Ciprés
      Pages 147-155
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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2013, held as part of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2013, held in Las Vegas, USA in July 2013, jointly with 12 other thematically similar conferences.
The total of 1666 papers and 303 posters presented at the HCII 2013 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 5210 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas.
The total of 49 contributions was carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the OCSC proceedings. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: user behavior and experience in online social communities; learning and gaming communities; society, business and health; designing and developing novel online social experiences.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, UMBC, Department of Information Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

    A. Ant Ozok

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

    Panayiotis Zaphiris

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