BUILDING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT FOR AN ONLINE RESEARCH COMMUNITY

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Abstract

Although online communities have been thought of as a new mode of collaboration in the scientific world. They suffer from the problem of motivating members to visit and contribute regularly. The main purposes of this study are to explore factors that contribute to online relationship development and to design and evaluate system features to encourage relationship development. This extended abstract first presents the research motivation in introduction section. A theoretical framework to guide the work is described, based on theories from the computer mediated communication field. A field study and the system design based on the framework is then introduced, followed by the research methodology that will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the framework and the communication features based upon it. Finally, the research timetable will be presented.

Identifier

85139142172 (Scopus)

Publication Title

9th Americas Conference on Information Systems Amcis 2003

First Page

3445

Last Page

3452

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