Exploring personality-targeted UI design in online social participation systems

We present a theoretical foundation and empirical findings demonstrating the effectiveness of personality-targeted design. Much like a medical treatment applied to a person based on his specific genetic profile, we argue that theory-driven, personality-targeted UI design can be more effective than design applied to the entire population. The empirical exploration focused on two settings, two populations and two personality traits: Study 1 shows that users' extroversion level moderates the relationship between the UI cue of audience size and users' contribution. Study 2 demonstrates that the effectiveness of social anchors in encouraging online contributions depends on users' level of emotional stability. Taken together, the findings demonstrate the potential and robustness of the interactionist approach to UI design. The findings contribute to the HCI community, and in particular to designers of social systems, by providing guidelines to targeted design that can increase online participation. Copyright © 2013 ACM

Linear Time-Dependent Invariants for Scalar Fields and Noether's Theorem

The infinite number of time-dependent linear in field and conjugated momenta invariants is derived for the scalar field using the Noether's theorem procedure.Comment: LaTeX, 6 pages, preprint of Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Departamento de F\ii sica and Matem\'aticas Aplicadas, M\'exico D. F. , M\'exico No. 04 (1994