Conference proceeding
Incentivizing the ASL-STEM forum
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on wikis and open collaboration, pp.219-220
WikiSym '11
10/03/2011
DOI: 10.1145/2038558.2038602
Abstract
The ASL-STEM Forum is a web forum which allows people who know American Sign Language (ASL), to contribute signs in the fields of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). A key problem is increasing participation and contributions to the forum. To solve this problem, we introduced personal smart notifications, based on user profiles, which encourage users to contribute to the forum by adding new signs for STEM terms or commenting on existing signs. Since there might be a chance that a member will be familiar with the author of a topic or sign, they might be more inclined to contribute. In future work, a user study will follow to evaluate whether personal smart notifications will increase contributions to the ASL-STEM forum.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Incentivizing the ASL-STEM forum
- Creators
- Kyle Rector - University of WashingtonRichard Ladner - University of WashingtonMichelle Shepardson - University of Washington
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on wikis and open collaboration, pp.219-220
- Series
- WikiSym '11
- DOI
- 10.1145/2038558.2038602
- Publisher
- ACM
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000145, name: Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, award: IIS-0915268
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/03/2011
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984259415702771
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