Real Time vs. Non-Real Time Dave Musson Jessica Speir Joe Zeles Tyler Brown

Summary Original Subject and New Subject Real Time Software Non-Real Time Software Software that Contains Both Conclusion

Original Subject What Motivates People to Act? Intrinsic Extrinsic Overjustification Effect [Greene, Sternberg and Lepper (1976)] Why the Topic was Chosen Interesting and Complex

Narrowed Topic Differences in Motivation Between Real Time Software and Non-Real Time Software? Why Did We Change?

Real Time Software What is it? Teleconferencing Videoconferencing Gaming EDC Board

Real Time Software Motivation for using it Instant Response Accountability Feel Like Part of the Group Anonymity Less in Small Groups More in Large Groups (if Supported)

Real Time Software De-motivational Factors No Complete Anonymity What Applications Support This Are They True Real Time Systems? No Ability to Multi-Task Some Systems Have High Performance Needs Accountability (also motivating)

Non-Real Time Software What is it? Myspace Email Forums Wikis

Non-Real Time Software Motivation for Using it Respond “When You Want To” What Other Applications or Products Take This To Their Advantage? What Applications Should? Do These Applications Contribute To the Flattening of the World?

Non-Real Time Software Motivation for using it (Cont.) Can Support Complete Anonymity Anybody Use Applications With Complete Anonymity? Why Do You Like Anonymity? Why Do You Dislike It? Allows for a Much Larger User Group

Non-Real Time Software De-motivational Factors Can’t Get an Immediate Response Anonymity No Accountability

Non-Real Time Software Wikipedia Counting Edits (study by Jim Wales) 50% of the Edits are Done By 0.7% of the User Population Counting Content (i.e. – Number of Characters) Statistics are Reversed Most of the Content is By Users Who Make Only a Few Edits People Who Make Tons of Edits Usually Move Text Around, Fix Syntax, etc… Future Study Will Be Based Off Content, Not Edits http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia

Non-Real Time Software Wikipedia (Cont.) Most Content is Provided by People That Know of the Topic in Depth Symmetry of Ignorance and Fish Scale Model Wikipedia Relies on the Large Number of Users to Provide Content

Non-Real Time Software Why Don’t You Contribute To Wikipedia?

Non-Real Time Software Why People Do Not Contribute Do Not Have Any Information to Contribute or Assume They Do Not Feel That a Small Contribution Will Not Help They are Not Generous Social Loafing No Responsibility

Non-Real Time Software Social Loafing Responsibility Responsibility

Conclusions of Real Time Real Time Systems Motivating Factors No Social Loafing Instant Response Good for Small Groups De-Motivating Factors Accountability (can lead to shyness) Must Be Available (hard to do with large groups) System Requirements Must Be Reliable and Usually High Performance

Conclusions of Non-Real Time Non-Real Time Systems Motivating Factors Participate When you Want Anonymity Good for Large Groups (often requires large groups) De-Motivating Factors Social Loafing System Requirements Requires Large User Base Doesn’t Need to be as Reliable Not Necessarily Motivating for Participants

Combination Software Instant Messaging Great for One on One (still anonymous?) Receive Real Time Interaction When All Parties are Able To Can Participate When You Want Able to Connect Many to Many (what advantage do we lose?) Doesn’t Support Storing the Same Way Forums and Wikis Do

Combination Software Group Scribbles Has Some Properties of “When you Want” More Graphical Representation Than IM One on One or Many on Many? Stores Current State Doesn’t Store Chain of Events

Questions Software We Didn’t Mention? Advantages or Disadvantages That Weren’t Brought Up? Personal Experiences?