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- research-articleAugust 2022
The Effect of Group Identity on Hiring Decisions with Incomplete Information
We investigate the effects of group identity on hiring decisions with adverse selection problems. We run a laboratory experiment in which employers cannot observe a worker’s ability or verify the veracity of the ability the worker claims to have. We ...
- research-articleJanuary 2022
Investigating Crowdworkers' Identify, Perception and Practices in Micro-Task Crowdsourcing
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 6, Issue GROUPArticle No.: 35, Pages 1–20https://doi.org/10.1145/3492854Crowdsourcing is rapidly gaining popularity among academic and business communities. Yet, our understanding of this work way is still in its incipient stage, in particular regarding the increasingly large and diverse crowdworkers. As such, we aim to ...
- research-articleMarch 2019
Charity in the Laboratory: Matching, Competition, and Group Identity
We conduct a laboratory experiment in which participants can make donations to real charities. We vary whether the experimenter provides matching funds for any such donations, and whether there is individual or team competition for these matching funds. ...
- research-articleFebruary 2014
Building loyalty to online communities through bond and identity-based attachment to sub-groups
CSCW '14: Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computingPages 146–157https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531688Researchers and theorists have proposed that feelings of attachment to subgroups within a larger online community or site can increase users' loyalty to the site. They have identified two types of attachment, with distinct causes and consequences. With ...
- research-articleAugust 2013
Project talk: coordination work and group membership in WikiProjects
WikiSym '13: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open CollaborationArticle No.: 3, Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/2491055.2491058WikiProjects have contributed to Wikipedia's success in important ways, yet the range of work that WikiProjects perform and the way they coordinate that work remains largely unexplored. In this study, we perform a content analysis of 788 work-related ...
- articleSeptember 2012
Building member attachment in online communities: applying theories of group identity and interpersonal bonds
MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Volume 36, Issue 3Pages 841–864Online communities are increasingly important to organizations and the general public, but there is little theoretically based research on what makes some online communities more successful than others. In this article, we apply theory from the field of ...
- articleSeptember 2011
Identity in Organizations: Exploring Cross-Level Dynamics
Organization Science (INFORMS-ORGS), Volume 22, Issue 5Pages 1144–1156https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.0591Most research on organization-based identities focuses on a single level of analysis, typically the individual, group, or organization. As a spur to more cross-level identity research, we offer speculative discussions on two issues concerning nested ...
- research-articleMay 2011
African American men constructing computing identity
CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2967–2970https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979381Many young African American males have a passion for video games, but they don't often translate that passion into learning about computing. Part of the problem is that they do not identify with computing as a social norm within their peer group. This ...
- abstractMay 2011
Exploring trust in group-to-group video-conferencing
CHI EA '11: CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 1459–1464https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979791Previous work has shown that supporting trust via computer-mediated communication can be a challenge, especially among strangers. In this paper, we report on an experiment comparing two group-to-group video-conferencing environments and face-to-face ...
- research-articleMarch 2011
Increasing commitment to online communities by designing for social presence
CSCW '11: Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative workPages 321–330https://doi.org/10.1145/1958824.1958874The existence and survival of online communities depends upon the commitment and retention of their members. This paper compares alternative ways of designing online sites to increase member commitment. We report the results of two experiments conducted ...
- research-articleNovember 2010
Shared identity helps partially distributed teams, but distance still matters
GROUP '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group WorkPages 89–96https://doi.org/10.1145/1880071.1880086Previous research on partially distributed teams has revealed a cluster of problems, including difficulty coordinating, 'ingroup' formation among members in different locations, and lower trust in teammates across distance. But these prior studies ...
- research-articleNovember 2008
Understanding computing stereotypes with self-categorization theory
Koli '08: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computing Education ResearchPages 72–75https://doi.org/10.1145/1595356.1595368The partly completed study presented in this paper explores characteristics of stereotypes in Computer Science. The study describes student autobiographical essays about computing, analyzed with particular attention to the ways in which students use ...
- research-articleDecember 2007
My guild, my people: role of guilds in massively multiplayer online games
IE '07: Proceedings of the 4th Australasian conference on Interactive entertainmentArticle No.: 20, Pages 1–5Massively Multiplayer Online Games continue to grow and attract more users. The social aspect of MMOs differentiates them from single person games, increase user loyalty and often result in users spending increasing amounts of time in these virtual ...
- research-articleNovember 2007
Design, implementation and evaluation of an online community to foster girls' interest and participation in STEM
GROUP '07: Doctoral Consortium Papers of the 2007 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group WorkArticle No.: 12, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/1329112.1329124Due to low participation rates of girls and women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), getting more girls involved in STEM is an important issue. For my dissertation, I am designing, implementing and evaluating an online ...
- ArticleJuly 2007
The relationship between social presence and group identification within online communities and its impact on the success of online communities
OCSC'07: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Online communities and social computingPages 160–168In order to encourage more girls to choose STEM-study courses (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) we created an online community and e-mentoring program for German high school girls and women engaged in STEM vocational fields. Within the ...