29 Oct
2018
29 Oct
'18
9:54 a.m.
Hi All,
We have our HCI group meeting tomorrow at 12:30 PM at DGP Seminar room. Weiwen Leung is going to give a practice talk on his paper that he going to present in CSCW next month. The paper is about the impact of NFL games to the Wikipedia editors that identify themselves as fans of NFL teams (abstract is below). Please drop by and help Weiwen to prepare for the talk, while at the same time give feedback on this awesome work. Lunch will be provided during the meeting.
Thanks, Rifat
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Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat
Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/
Exploiting evidence that sporting results affect fans’ mood, we analyze
whether National Football League game outcomes can affect the contributions
of Wikipedia editors who identify as fans of a specific team. We find that
the day after a team loses, their fans decrease their contributions towards
football-related pages (relative to after a win). Relative decreases are
bigger if losses are unexpected, or if losing margins are big. In contrast,
unexpected wins do not cause more contributions relative to wins that were
not unexpected. Neither do big wins result in more contributions relative
to small wins. Additionally, contributions to non-football-related pages
are not affected by NFL game results. Our findings add to the literatures
on (i) the determinants of individual contributions to peer production
communities, (ii) how community dynamics affect user contributions, (iii)
the importance of emotions, (iv) the effect of offline events on online
behavior, and (v) the applicability of behavioral economics concepts to the
HCI literature.