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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Building directories for social tagging systems
Today, a number of algorithms exist for constructing tag hierarchies from social tagging data. While these algorithms were designed with ontological goals in mind, we know very li...
Denis Helic, Markus Strohmaier
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Being watched or being special: how I learned to stop worrying and love being monitored, surveilled, and assessed
This paper explores the relationship between display of feedback (public vs. private) by a computer system and the basis for evaluation (present vs. absent) of that feedback. We e...
Erica Robles, Abhay Sukumaran, Kathryn Rickertsen,...
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
DSS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Do men and women use feedback provided by their Decision Support Systems (DSS) differently
This study investigates the effect gender has on the use of computer-based feedback and the impact that this feedback has on mood. The decision making process of men and women are...
Soussan Djamasbi, Eleanor T. Loiacono
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
A model of norm emergence and innovation in language change
We analyze and extend a recently proposed model of linguistic diffusion in social networks, to analytically derive time to convergence, and to account for the innovation phase of...
Samarth Swarup, Andrea Apolloni, Zsuzsanna Fagyal