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

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

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

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

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

6. 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)

7. 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)

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

9. 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?

10. 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

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

12. 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

13. 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

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

15. 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

16. Non-Real Time Software
Social Loafing
Responsibility
Responsibility

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

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