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Project

Knowledge Exchange with a Shared Database

Knowledge Construction Lab

Duration

August 2007 – open-end

Funding

Budget resources of KMRC

Description

In the context of web-based knowledge communication people can use new media in order to share information with other people. Since this kind of information exchange represents a social dilemma the involved people's willingness to pass on information is regularly rather low. This research project examines which factors influence people's experience and behavior in this information-exchange dilemma. In a series of experimental laboratory studies the following factors amongst others have been examined: bonus systems and contribution costs, behavioral recommendations and feedback, endowment heterogeneity, group awareness as well as various personality traits. In subsequent studies the scope will be broadened, and information exchange in online communities will be analyzed. Based on the social identity model of deindividuation effects the impact of anonymity and identifiability in the group context will be examined.

Cooperations

  • Dr. Joachim Kimmerle, Department of Applied Cognitive Psychology and Media Psychology, University of Tuebingen

Publications

  • Cress, U., & Kimmerle, J. (in press). Computervermittelter Wissensaustausch als Soziales Dilemma: Ein Überblick. Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie.
  •  Wodzicki, K., Schwämmlein, E., Cress, U., & Kimmerle, J. (2011). Does the type of anonymity matter? The impact of visualization on information sharing in online groups. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14 (3), 157-160.
  •  Cress, U., Kimmerle, J., & Hesse, F. W. (2009). Impact of temporal extension, synchronicity, and group size on computer-supported information exchange. Computers in Human Behavior, 25 (3), 731-737. 
  • Kimmerle, J., & Cress, U. (2009). Visualization of group members’ participation: How information presentation formats support information exchange. Social Science Computer Review, 27(2), 243-261.
  • Cress, U., & Kimmerle, J. (2008). Endowment heterogeneity and identifiability in the Information-Exchange Dilemma. Computers and Human Behavior, 24, 862-874. 
    Kimmerle, J., & Cress, U. (2008). Group awareness and self-presentation in computer-supported information exchange.International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 3 (1), 85-97.
  • Kimmerle, J., Wodzicki, K., Jarodzka, H., & Cress, U. (2011). Value of information, behavioral guidelines, and social value orientation in an information-exchange dilemma. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 15, 173-186.
  • Cress, U. (2006). Effektiver Einsatz von Datenbanken im betrieblichen Wissensmanagement. Bern: Hans Huber Verlag
  • Cress, U., Kimmerle, J. (2007). Guidelines, feedback and co-operation: The impact of behavioral anchors and social norms in the information-exchange dilemma. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 11, 42-53.
  • Cress, U., Kimmerle, J. Hesse, F. W. (2006). Information exchange with shared databases as a social dilemma: The effect of metaknowledge, bonus systems, and costs. Communication Research, 33, 370-390.
  • Kimmerle, J., Cress, U. &, Hesse, F. W. (2007). An interactional perspective on group awareness: Alleviating the information-exchange dilemma (for everybody?). International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 65 (11), 899-910.