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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Social gravity: a virtual elastic tether for casual, privacy-preserving pedestrian rendezvous
We describe a virtual “tether” for mobile devices that allows groups to have quick, simple and privacy-preserving meetups. Our design provides cues which allow dynamic coordin...
John Williamson, Simon Robinson, Craig Stewart, Ro...
CSCW
1998
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Community Support for Constructionist Learning
MOOSE Crossing is a text-based virtual reality environment (or “MUD”) designed to be a constructionist learning environment for children ages eight to thirteen. The constructio...
Amy Bruckman
C5
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Enabling Social Dimensions of Learning through a Persistent, Unified, Massively Multi-User, and Self-Organizing Virtual Environm
Existing online learning experiences lack the social dimension that characterizes learning in the real world. This social dimension extends beyond the traditional classroom into t...
Julian Lombardi, Mark P. McCahill
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 days ago
A tag in the hand: supporting semantic, social, and spatial navigation in museums
Designers of mobile, social systems must carefully think about how to help their users manage spatial, semantic, and social modes of navigation. Here, we describe our deployment o...
Dan Cosley, Jonathan Baxter, Soyoung Lee, Brian Al...
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