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HICSS
2007
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Redefining and Measuring Virtual Work in Teams: An Application of Social Network Analysis
For several decades organizational researchers have explored the practice of using electronic technology to communicate when team members work physically apart from each other. Ye...
Priscilla Arling
HICSS
2009
IEEE
155views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Explaining the Continuous Use of Social Virtual Worlds: An Applied Theory of Planned Behavior Approach
Social virtual worlds (SVWs) have become increasingly popular spaces for social interaction. To be attractive to engage with, maintaining a sufficient base of active users is a si...
Jani Merikivi, Matti Mäntymäki
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Gaming On and Off the Social Graph: The Social Structure of Facebook Games
—Games built on Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become a phenomenon since 3rd party developer tools were exposed by OSNs such as Facebook. However, apart from their explosive ...
Ben Kirman, Shaun Lawson, Conor Linehan
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 9 months ago
The social fMRI: measuring, understanding, and designing social mechanisms in the real world
A key challenge of data-driven social science is the gathering of high quality multi-dimensional datasets. A second challenge relates to design and execution of structured experim...
Nadav Aharony, Wei Pan, Cory Ip, Inas Khayal, Alex...
GI
2009
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
An Application for Simulations at Large Pickup and Delivery Service Providers
: Over time, large scale pickup and delivery providers acquire considerable amounts of data on customer orders, including order times, amount and configurations of freight, as well...
Curt Nowak, Klaus Ambrosi, Felix Hahne