Cooperation Among Strangers: Visualizing Norms as a Means of Supporting Cooperation in Online Systems
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This position paper explores the possibility of using social proxies – minimalist visualizations of people and their activities in online environments – to increase the likelihood of socially positive behaviors (trust, compliance, cooperation) in online systems. The paper begins by discussing the assumption underpinning the work: that making participants mutually visible produces social pressures for them to behave in accordance with social norms. Next it briefly describes social proxies. Finally, the paper discusses two examples that illustrate how interactive norms are more visible, and how that might in turn shape users’ behavior in online systems.
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