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Research on the Collaborative Mechanism of Project Robots in Online Knowledge Production Communities: An Analysis of GitHub

  • Ziyu Wang
  • , Chengming Ma
  • , Wenhao Shen*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Bots are becoming more widely adopted in GitHub, with implications for online knowledge collaboration. It is necessary to study the extent of the impact of bots in online knowledge collaboration. A total of 843 projects with around 63125 aggregate data were acquired by crawling projects through GitHub API and filtering out projects that do not contain code or do not have any issues. Preliminary research found no correlation between the adoption of bots and the popularity of the project, while most of the literature support a positive correlation. But further classified observation according to the attributes of the bot, we found that projects with dedicated bots were more popular than projects with template bots. The study found that the adoption of dedicated bots for projects led to an increase in commit, fork, and issue count, which affected the addition, reorganization, and integration of knowledge collaboration. The study also found that projects with dedicated bots received more attention, with a positive correlation between fork count and star count, but no significant correlation between commit, issue count and star count. The impact of bots in online knowledge collaboration is still lacking in terms of adding and integrating knowledge.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCross-Cultural Design - 16th International Conference, CCD 2024, Held as Part of the 26th HCI International Conference, HCII 2024, Proceedings
EditorsPei-Luen Patrick Rau
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages147-161
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783031609008
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event16th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2024, held as part of the 26th HCI International Conference, HCII 2024 - Washington, United States
Duration: 29 Jun 20244 Jul 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14700 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2024, held as part of the 26th HCI International Conference, HCII 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington
Period29/06/244/07/24

Keywords

  • GitHub
  • Human-bot interaction
  • collaborative mechanism
  • online knowledge production
  • project robot

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