Title: Enhancing a web-based community: the case of SIG-GLUE

Authors: Ioannis Antonellis, Christos Bouras, Vaggelis Kapoulas, Vassilis Poulopoulos

Addresses: Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Riga Feraiou 61, Patras GR 26221, Greece. ' Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Riga Feraiou 61, Patras GR 26221, Greece. ' Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Riga Feraiou 61, Patras GR 26221, Greece. ' Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Riga Feraiou 61, Patras GR 26221, Greece

Abstract: The expansion of the web has reached outrageous proportions with the number of web communities existing and the number of those being created daily increasing dramatically. To parallel this phenomenon is the trend nowadays of mobile phone services. One of the most representative is the case of Greece, where in a period of five years about five million people subscribed for a telephone number for mobile devices. The communities are not static any more. The philosophy is: a universal community has to be mobile. This paper analysed the expansion of the community of SIG-GLUE in order to support mobile users with any necessary web service.

Keywords: web based communities; game-based learning; lifelong learning; special interest groups; content management systems; Greece; web services; mobile communications; educational games; university education.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2006.008619

International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2006 Vol.2 No.1, pp.112 - 130

Published online: 11 Jan 2006 *

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