Stimulating User Participation in a File-Sharing P2P System Supporting University Classes
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We have implemented a small-scale peer-to-peer based environment called Comtella, which allows faculty, graduate and undergraduate students to contribute and share URLs of class-related resources, like academic and popular articles. The system has been deployed for three months in a university course on ethics and information technology with thirty five undergraduate students. We deployed two motivational strategies to encourage users to contribute resources. The evaluation results showed a significant increase in participation and the number of contributions. Future work will focus on ensuring mechanisms for collective quality control of the
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