@inproceedings{27750a72466e4980b87f590c77132225,
title = "Enhancing evaluation of potential dates online through paired collaborative activities",
abstract = "Online dating systems are the most common way people meet their marriage partners online. Nevertheless, online daters struggle to evaluate personality traits of potential partners using profile pages and private messaging in these systems. Meanwhile, Multiplayer Online Games (MOGs) have emerged as a popular way young people find romantic partners for relationships in the physical world. We conducted two interview studies-one concerning evaluation behavior in online dating systems (n=41) and the other concerning collaborative activities in MOGs (n=35). Insights from these studies reveal the weaknesses in evaluation tools native to online dating and suggest that collaborative activities could potentially address evaluation challenges in online dating. The paper concludes with a discussion of a series of design concepts for online dating in order to improve users' abilities to evaluate their potential romantic partners for in-person meetings.",
keywords = "Multiplayer Online Games, Online dating systems, collaboration, evaluation, personality traits",
author = "Doug Zytko and Guo Freeman and Grandhi, {Sukeshini A.} and Susan Herring and Quentin Jones",
year = "2015",
month = feb,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1145/2675133.2675184",
language = "English (US)",
series = "CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "1849--1859",
booktitle = "CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing",
note = "18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015 ; Conference date: 14-03-2015 Through 18-03-2015",
}