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Re: Off Topic: Kayakers wanted for research study
By:Farback
Date: 11/2/2010, 2:50 pm

: Draw your own conclusions...
: From his website:

: In my research, I identify incentive mechanisms: technological
: design patterns that lead to predictable, desirable behavior.
: Having a toolbox of incentive mechanisms allows us to move from
: building technical systems to engineering socio-technical
: systems. Identifying these causal relationships also allows us
: to better understand the use of these systems, and the effects
: these systems have on their users.

: To identify and characterize incentive mechanisms, I draw on
: theories of motivation and incentives from human-computer
: interaction, economics, communications, and social psychology to
: understand, explain, and then predict behavior of users. I
: combine these theories with my computer science background to
: identify and design technical features that can reliably induce
: desired behaviors across a wide variety of computer systems. I
: use this interdisciplinary approach because these systems are
: inherently socio-technical; their effectiveness depends
: critically on both the social behavior and the technical design
: of the system. I use a variety of approaches to study incentive
: mechanisms in social media; my research includes economic
: modeling, quantitative server log analysis, both lab and field
: experiments, and qualitative inquiry.

I've been told to say that I'm not a puppet.

Kirk

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Jacob Solomon -- 11/1/2010, 3:02 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/7/2010, 1:26 am
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Doug S -- 11/1/2010, 6:31 pm
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wwfloyd -- 11/2/2010, 5:53 am
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Josh b -- 11/2/2010, 9:45 am
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TheLuckyOne -- 11/3/2010, 10:21 pm
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dbynoe -- 11/4/2010, 11:49 am
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Farback -- 11/4/2010, 4:14 pm
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Mike Savage -- 11/2/2010, 4:05 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/3/2010, 5:27 am
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Farback -- 11/2/2010, 2:50 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 11/1/2010, 11:32 pm
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John Roberts -- 11/2/2010, 1:30 pm
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Bryan Kapteyn -- 11/2/2010, 10:32 am
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Farback -- 11/2/2010, 7:56 am
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dbynoe -- 11/1/2010, 8:54 pm