On the Popularity of Internet of Things Projects in Online Communities

Taher Ahmed Ghaleb (), Daniel Alencar da Costa () and Ying Zou ()
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Taher Ahmed Ghaleb: Queen’s University
Daniel Alencar da Costa: University of Otago
Ying Zou: Queen’s University

Information Systems Frontiers, 2022, vol. 24, issue 5, No 15, 1634 pages

Abstract: Abstract Online Internet of Things (IoT) communities allow IoT engineers to publish information about their projects to a wider audience of users. Despite the growing adoption of IoT technologies in business, the popularity of IoT projects remains unexplored. Understanding how to improve the popularity of IoT projects helps project owners attract more users and foster business opportunities. In this paper, we explore the important characteristics of popular IoT projects across three facets: views count, respects count, and trending scores. We study over 18,000 IoT projects hosted on Hackster.io—a large online IoT community. In particular, we perform a time-series clustering to identify the evolution of each of the three popularity facets. In addition, we construct linear mixed-effect models to investigate the most important factors associated with the popularity of IoT projects. We provide insights to online IoT communities to improve the user guidelines to help (new) IoT engineers make their projects more eye-catching.

Keywords: Online communities; Popularity; Internet of Things (IoT); Empirical study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s10796-021-10157-1

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