Call for Participation

Workshop at COOP 2010 - 9th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems

http://www.coopsys.org/

Full day workshop on May, 18, 2010, COOP 2010 conference in Aix-en-Provence, France

Incentives and Motivation for Web-Based Collaboration (Webcentives)

http://www.disa.unitn.it/net-economy/WEBCENTIVES/index.htm

Social Web and Semantic Web applications are based on large-scale user participation. Open Source Software projects (OSS), gaming and other online communities are constituted by voluntary engagement of contributors, almost self-organized and self-managed. Also large-scale intranet applications of business companies and non-governmental organizations are increasingly relying on Social/Semantic Web technologies and community-building.

The workshop focuses on motivation structures of users to participate in (online) communities and to contribute to collaborative content creation: What kind of motivation mechanisms, incentives or rewards are appropriate to increase the (extrinsic) motivation of users to contribute to online communities? What kind of community-support tools are successfully designed for fun or motivation for participation?

Contributions to this workshop can include (but are not limited to):

• ·         psychological and/or economical studies on motivation and incentives for web-based collaboration
• ·         ethnographic case studies on participation in online communities
• ·         incentives and reward mechanisms in online communities
• ·         studies on web-based community-building
• ·         theoretical approaches related to motivation and participation in online communities
• ·         sociability (design) requirements for community tools and applications
• ·         design studies of community platforms
• ·         prototypes, demonstrators, show cases of community-support or web-based collaboration tools
• ·         asf.

Workshop Design

Full day workshop on May, 18, 2010 in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Workshop participants will be given the opportunity to present a position paper (max. 10 minutes presentation). Main focus of the workshop will be discussion of approaches, projects, studies etc. on incentives or motivation mechanisms in online communities and for web-based collaboration.

Submission/Participation

Each workshop participant should prepare a position paper (3-5 pages) and send this position paper to the workshop organizers (mailto: markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de) until April, 15.

It is planned to publish a selection of the best position papers (as extended versions) in a workshop report as a Special Issue of the International Report on Socio-Informatics (IRSI, see: http://www.iisi.de/102.0.html).

Organizers

Dr. Elena Simperl, Innsbruck University, Austria

Elena Simperl works as a senior researcher at the Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Free University of Berlin and a Diploma in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich. She held positions as a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich (2002-2003) and the Free University of Berlin (2003-2007) before joining STI Innsbruck early 2007. Elena contributed to several European and national projects in the field of semantic technologies. She was scientific coordinator of the TripCom project, and project manager of the NoE Knowledge Web; currently she is acting as coordinator of the projects Service Web 3.0 and INSEMTIVES, and as activity leader in the project SOA4All. Starting from January, 2010 Elena joined the Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Dr. Roberta Cuel, Trento University, Italy

Roberta Cuel holds a Ph.D. in Organization and Management (University of Udine) and is currently Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at the Faculty of Economics, University of Trento. Her research interests are aimed at discovering the interdependencies between technology and organizations, such as the impacts of innovative technologies on teams, communities, and organizational models, the study of distributed tools and processes that allow organizational learning and knowledge management, and knowledge representation systems (such as ontologies, classifications, taxonomies) as mechanisms for knowledge reification processes. She has written a number of chapters in books, articles in international journals, and has served as the PC member for various interdisciplinary conferences.

Dr. Markus Rohde, Siegen University, Germany

Markus Rohde studied psychology and sociology at the University of Bonn. He got his Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from Roskilde University, Denmark. He is working as project manager for the International Institute for Socio-Informatics (IISI), Bonn and as research manager for community informatics at the Institute for Information Systems and New Media at the University of Siegen. Moreover he is editor of the political science journal "Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen" (New Social Movements). >From 1997 until 2001 he worked as CEO of AGENDA CONSULT GmbH and as a consultant for medium-sized enterprises and for nonprofit-organizations. His main research interests are community computing, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), human-computer interaction, virtual organizations, non-governmental organizations and (new) social movements.

Contact

Dr. Markus Rohde, Information Systems and New Media, University of Siegen, Hoelderlinstr.3, 57068 Siegen, Germany, markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de

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dr. markus rohde * http://members.iisi.de/rohde
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university of siegen * institute for information systems
hoelderlinstr. 3 * 57068 siegen * room: H-B 8417  
fon: +49 271-740-4069 * fax -3384 * markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de 
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contact/ home office * dorotheenstr. 76 * 53111 bonn 
fon +49 228 6910-43 * fax -53 * ma.rohde@t-online.de 
forschungsjournal neue soziale bewegungen * www.fjnsb.de
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international institute for socio-informatics (iisi) 
markus.rohde@iisi.de * www.iisi.de

-- 
dr. markus rohde * http://members.iisi.de/rohde
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university of siegen * institute for information systems
hoelderlinstr. 3 * 57068 siegen * room: H-B 8417  
fon: +49 271-740-4069 * fax -3384 * markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de 
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contact/ home office * dorotheenstr. 76 * 53111 bonn 
fon +49 228 6910-43 * fax -53 * ma.rohde@t-online.de 
forschungsjournal neue soziale bewegungen * www.fjnsb.de
*
international institute for socio-informatics (iisi) 
markus.rohde@iisi.de * www.iisi.de

-- 
dr. markus rohde * http://members.iisi.de/rohde
*
university of siegen * institute for information systems
hoelderlinstr. 3 * 57068 siegen * room: H-B 8417  
fon: +49 271-740-4069 * fax -3384 * markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de 
*
contact/ home office * dorotheenstr. 76 * 53111 bonn 
fon +49 228 6910-43 * fax -53 * ma.rohde@t-online.de 
forschungsjournal neue soziale bewegungen * www.fjnsb.de
*
international institute for socio-informatics (iisi) 
markus.rohde@iisi.de * www.iisi.de