TY - JOUR
T1 - Using social visualization to motivate social production
AU - Gilbert, Eric
AU - Karahalios, Karrie
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received June 01, 2008; revised November 22, 2008. Current version published March 18, 2009. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under NSF 0643502. The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Dr. Lexing Xie.
PY - 2009/4
Y1 - 2009/4
N2 - In this paper we argue that social visualization can motivate contributors to social production projects, such as Wikipedia and open source development. As evidence, we present CodeSaw, a social visualization of open source software development that we studied with real open source communities. CodeSaw mines open source archives to visualize group dynamics that currently lie buried in textual databases. Furthermore, CodeSaw becomes an active social space itself by supporting comments directly inside the visualization. To demonstrate CodeSaw, we apply it to a popular open source project, showing how the visualization reveals group dynamics and individual roles. The paper concludes by presenting evidence that CodeSaw, and social visualization more generally, can motivate contributors to social production projects if the visualization leaves the laboratory and makes it to the community visualized.
AB - In this paper we argue that social visualization can motivate contributors to social production projects, such as Wikipedia and open source development. As evidence, we present CodeSaw, a social visualization of open source software development that we studied with real open source communities. CodeSaw mines open source archives to visualize group dynamics that currently lie buried in textual databases. Furthermore, CodeSaw becomes an active social space itself by supporting comments directly inside the visualization. To demonstrate CodeSaw, we apply it to a popular open source project, showing how the visualization reveals group dynamics and individual roles. The paper concludes by presenting evidence that CodeSaw, and social visualization more generally, can motivate contributors to social production projects if the visualization leaves the laboratory and makes it to the community visualized.
KW - Open source
KW - Remote collaboration
KW - Social visualization
KW - Visualization
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U2 - 10.1109/TMM.2009.2012916
DO - 10.1109/TMM.2009.2012916
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:63049110075
SN - 1520-9210
VL - 11
SP - 413
EP - 421
JO - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
JF - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
IS - 3
M1 - 4802372
ER -