Oded Nov , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
General Information
Room: LC 401
Phone: 3562
E-mail: onov@poly.edu
Research Interests
- Behavioral aspects of information systems
- Social computing
- Motivations of open source and open content contributors
- Knowledge management
- Technology management
Education
Publications
Journal publications
- Nov, O. Naaman, M. and Ye, C. (forthcoming). Analysis of Participation in an Online Photo Sharing Community: A Multi-Dimension Perspective. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
- Nov, O. and Ye, C. (forthcoming). Why do People Tag? Motivations for Collaborative Content Tagging. Communications of the ACM.
- Nov, O. and Ye, C. (2009). Resistance to Change and the Adoption of Digital Libraries: An Integrative Model. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 60 (8) 1702-1708. (available here)
- Nov, O. and Rafaeli, S. (2009). Measuring the Premium on Common Knowledge in Computer-Mediated Coordination Problems. Computers in Human Behavior 25 (1) 171-174.
- Nov, O. and Rao, B. (2008). Technology-Facilitated 'Give According to Your Abilities, Receive According to Your Needs'. Communications of the ACM 51 (5) 83-87. (available here)
- Nov, O. and Ye, C. (2008). Users' Personality and Perceived Ease of Use of Digital Libraries: The Case for Resistance to Change. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59 (5) 845-851. (an abstract is available here)
- Nov, O. and Kuk, G. (2008). Open Content Contributors' Response to Free Riding: The Roles of Personality and Context. Computers in Human Behavior24 (6) 2848–2861.
- Nov, Y. and Nov, O. (2008). Living In a Bubble? Toward a Unified Bubble Theory. International Journal of General Systems 37 (5) 627-635.(available here)
- Oreg, S. and Nov, O. (2008). Exploring Motivations for Contributing to Open Source Initiatives: The Roles of Contribution Context and Personal Values. Computers in Human Behavior 24 (5) 2055-2073. (available here)
- Nov, O. (2007). What Motivates Wikipedians. Communications of the ACM 50 (11) 60-64. (available here)
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Book chapters
- Nov, O. (2009). Information Sharing and Social Computing: Why, What and Where? In: Zelkowitz, M. (Ed.), Advances in Computers, 76, 1-18. Elsevier, Academic Press.
Conferences
- Arazy, O. and Nov, O. (2010). Determinants of Wikipedia Quality: the Roles of Global and Local Contribution Inequality. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010). Savannah, GA, February 2010. (available here)
- Nov, O., Naaman, M., and Ye, C. (2009). Motivational, Structural and Tenure Factors that Impact Online Community Photo Sharing.
Proceedings of AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2009).
San Jose, CA, May 2009. Best Paper Award. (available here)
- Nov, O. and Wattal, S. (2009). Social Computing and Privacy Concerns: Antecedents and Effects.
Proceedings of CHI 2009: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
Boston, MA, April 2009. (available
here)
- Nov, O. and Ye, C. (2008). Community Photo Sharing: Motivational and Structural Antecedents. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Paris, France, December 2008. (available here)
- Nov, O., Ye, C. and Kumar, N. (2008). Why Do People Contribute Meta-Knowledge? A Social Capital Perspective. The Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Anaheim, CA, USA, August 2008.
- Nov, O., Naaman, M. and Ye, C. (2008). What Drives Content Tagging: The Case of Photos on Flickr. Proceedings of CHI 2008: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Italy, April 2008. (available here)
- Nov, O. and Ye, C. (2008). Personality and technology acceptance: The case for personal innovativeness in IT, openness and resistance to change. Proceedings of the 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 41), Hawaii, USA, January 2008. IEEE Press.
- Nov, O. and Ye, C. (2007). The effect of dispositional resistance to change on perceived ease of use. Proceedings of the Sixth Pre-ICIS Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction Research (SIG-HCI), Montreal, Canada, December 2007.
- Nov, O. and Ye, C. (2007). Sustaining customer-centric communities: what drives content viewing? Proceedings of the Pre-ICIS Sixth Workshop on e-Business (WeB 2007), Montreal, Canada, December 2007.
- Nov, O. and Oreg, S. (2006). Open source contribution: The Role of personal Values. Proceedings of the IFIP 8.2 Organizations and Society in Information Systems (OASIS) Research Workshop at the 27th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Milwaukee, WI, USA, December 2006.
- Nov, O. and Jones, M. (2006). Knowledge management and creativity: A technology-facilitated balance. Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2006.
- Nov, O. and Rao, B. (2005). A Common grid: a note on grid computing and common goods. Proceedings of the Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) Portland, OR, August 2005.
- B. Rao, Angelov, B. and Nov, O. (2005). When disruptive technologies integrate: evidence from the Skype case. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Management of Technology (IAMOT) Vienna, Austria, May 2005.
- Nov, O. and Jones, M. (2005). Creativity, knowledge and IS: a critical view. Proceedings of the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 38), Hawaii, USA, January 2005, IEEE Press. Track 1 – Volume, 44.2.
- Nov, O. and McCalla, R. (2004). Reflecting on Technology Acceptance: lessons from commercial creative processes. Proceedings of the IFIP 8.2 Organizations and Society in Information Systems (OASIS) Research Workshop at the 25th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Washington DC, USA, December 2004.
- Nov, O. and Jones, M. (2004). Information systems and creativity management in the media and advertising industries: a critical view. Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Turku, Finland, June 2004.
- Nov, O. and Jones, M. (2003).“The less you know the better”? Creative processes and Knowledge restriction practices. Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM), Oxford, UK, September 2003, pp. 687-696.
- Nov, O. and Jones, M. (2003). Ordering creativity? Knowledge, creativity, and social interaction in the advertising industry. Proceedings of the 4th Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities (OKLC) conference, Barcelona, Spain, April 2003.
Recent invited talks
- University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences: “Why, what and where do we share”, Pittsburgh, PA, 17 November 2008.
- City University of New York, Baruch College: “Social information sharing”, New York, NY, 6 November 2008.
- Swedish Royal Institute of Technology: “Drivers of information sharing”, Stockholm, Sweden, 28 August 2008.
- Yahoo! Research: “Information sharing: why, how and where”, New York, NY, 24 June 2008.
- Google Research NYC: “Why do people share what they know”, New York, NY, 13 May 2008.
- Tel Aviv University, Graduate School of Business, Information Systems Department: “What drives tagging”, Tel Aviv, Israel, 18 December 2007.