Human motivation principles and human factors for virtual communities

Esfijani, A; Hussain, FK; Chang, E

Human motivation principles and human factors for virtual communities

Esfijani, A Hussain, FK

Chang, E

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Citation:: CSEDU 2012 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2012, 1 pp. 93 - 100
Issue Date:: 2012-08-16

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dc.contributor.author	Esfijani, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Hussain, FK https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1513-8072	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Chang, E	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-08-16	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	CSEDU 2012 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2012, 1 pp. 93 - 100	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9789898565068	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/22941
dc.description.abstract	The main purpose of this study is to investigate, from a theoretical point of view, virtual universities in comparison with Social Networking Services (SNS). The theoretical framework constitutes of the Human Motivation Theory (HMT) and the Human Factors (HF) in which Facebook as the most popular SNS is compared with virtual university in general. The main features of these technologies were compared in order to consider whether they comply with mentioned theories. Using an exploratory research methodology, this study concludes that SNSs are more adopted with HMT than virtual university. In the other word, Facebook applications as the most popular virtual community with over 500,000,000 users worldwide, is more compliant with HMT to gratify users' needs. Also, from the perspective of human factors, it is more successful than the virtual university.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	CSEDU 2012 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education	en_US
dc.title	Human motivation principles and human factors for virtual communities	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.citation.volume	1	en_US
utslib.for	0806 Information Systems	en_US
dc.location.activity	Porto, Portugal	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Computer Science
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Systems, Management and Leadership
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CAI - Centre for Artificial Intelligence
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pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	1	en_US

Abstract:

The main purpose of this study is to investigate, from a theoretical point of view, virtual universities in comparison with Social Networking Services (SNS). The theoretical framework constitutes of the Human Motivation Theory (HMT) and the Human Factors (HF) in which Facebook as the most popular SNS is compared with virtual university in general. The main features of these technologies were compared in order to consider whether they comply with mentioned theories. Using an exploratory research methodology, this study concludes that SNSs are more adopted with HMT than virtual university. In the other word, Facebook applications as the most popular virtual community with over 500,000,000 users worldwide, is more compliant with HMT to gratify users' needs. Also, from the perspective of human factors, it is more successful than the virtual university.

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