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ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Can software agents influence human relations?: balance theory in agent-mediated communities
We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Satoshi Nakazawa, Toru Ishida,...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
Socially relevant computing
In this paper, we introduce socially relevant computing as a new way to reinvigorate interest in computer science. Socially relevant computing centers on the use of computation to...
Michael Buckley, John Nordlinger, Devika Subramani...
CANDT
2009
14 years 14 days ago
Social capital, social network and identity bonds: a reconceptualization
We argue that along with social network analysis researchers can also benefit from looking at the identity bonding perspective. In this paper, by synthetic and critical reviewing ...
Hao Jiang, John M. Carroll
DNIS
2005
Springer
112views Database» more  DNIS 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Modelling Peer-to-Peer Data Networks Under Complex System Theory
: A Peer-to-peer Data Network (PDN) is an open and evolving society of peer nodes that assemble into a network to share their data for mutual benefit. PDNs are enabled by distribu...
Cyrus Shahabi, Farnoush Banaei Kashani
ISI
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Social media and social reality
Social Media provide an exciting and novel view into social phenomena. The vast amounts of data that can be gathered from the Internet coupled with massively parallel supercomputer...
William N. Reynolds, Marta S. Weber, Robert M. Far...