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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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"Your team cohesion is low"

a systematic study of the effects of social network feedback on mediated activity

Luciano GamberiniFrancesco MartinoAnna SpagnolliRoberto BaùMichela Ferron

pp. 172-181

Abstract

Collaborative mediated environments compete to provide visitors with social feedback, whose actual effects on visitors' behavior is poorly known. This study considers feedback based on Social Network Analysis (SNA) and assesses whether this feedback is able to affect user activity in an online collaborative game. The results show that SNA feedback is able to modify group activity beyond a mere novelty effect, especially on the dimensions of the behavior covered by the feedback itself. The results also point to the possible role of task type in accounting for the feedback effect on behavior.

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Ant Ozok A, Zaphiris Panayiotis (2011) Online communities and social computing: 4th international conference, OCSC 2011, held as part of HCI international 2011. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 172-181

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21796-8_18

Full citation:

Gamberini Luciano, Martino Francesco, Spagnolli Anna, Baù Roberto, Ferron Michela (2011) „"Your team cohesion is low": a systematic study of the effects of social network feedback on mediated activity“, In: A. Ant Ozok & P. Zaphiris (eds.), Online communities and social computing, Dordrecht, Springer, 172–181.