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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483446103321

Titolo

Online Communities and Social Computing : 5th International Conference, OCSC 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings / / edited by A. Ant Ozok, Panayiotis Zaphiris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

3-642-39371-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXII, 452 p. 102 illus.)

Collana

Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI ; ; 8029

Disciplina

303.4833

Soggetti

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Education—Data processing

Application software

Information storage and retrieval

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Computers and Education

Computer Applications

Information Storage and Retrieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

User Behaviour and Experience in On-Line Social Communities.- Learning and Gaming Communities -- Society, Business and Health -- Designing and Developing Novel On-Line Social Experiences.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2013, held as part of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2013, held in Las Vegas, USA in July 2013, jointly with 12 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1666 papers and 303 posters presented at the HCII 2013 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 5210 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted



for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The total of 49 contributions was carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the OCSC proceedings. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: user behavior and experience in online social communities; learning and gaming communities; society, business and health; designing and developing novel online social experiences.