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CANDC
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Computational and cognitive infrastructures of stigma: empowering identity in social computing and gaming
Computing technologies such as games, social networking sites, and virtual environments often reproduce forms of social stigma encountered in everyday real life, as well as introd...
D. Fox Harrell
VRST
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The benefits of third-person perspective in virtual and augmented reality?
Instead of the reality in which you can see your own limbs, in virtual reality simulations it is sometimes disturbing not to be able to see your own body. It seems to create an is...
Patrick Salamin, Daniel Thalmann, Fréd&eacu...
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Finding hierarchy in directed online social networks
Social hierarchy and stratification among humans is a well studied concept in sociology. The popularity of online social networks presents an opportunity to study social hierarch...
Mangesh Gupte, Pravin Shankar, Jing Li, S. Muthukr...
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using a model of social dynamics to predict popularity of news
Popularity of content in social media is unequally distributed, with some items receiving a disproportionate share of attention from users. Predicting which newly-submitted items ...
Kristina Lerman, Tad Hogg
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The use of emotions to create believable agents in a virtual environment
In the past emotions have been dismissed as a distraction to the logical, scientific thought process. More recently however, the importance of emotion in human-like intelligence a...
Karthi Selvarajah, Debbie Richards