Worldwide social networks, like Facebook, face fierce competition from local platforms when expanding globally. To remain attractive social network providers need to encourage use...
Gamification, the use of game mechanics in non-gaming applications, has been applied to various systems to encourage desired user behaviors. In this paper, we examine patterns of ...
Jennifer Thom-Santelli, David R. Millen, Joan Morr...
Web 2.0 applications have attracted a considerable amount of attention because their open-ended nature allows users to create lightweight semantic scaffolding to organize and shar...
Abstract. We present the design, prototype implementation, and evaluation of CenceMe, a personal sensing system that enables members of social networks to share their sensing prese...
Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane, Shane B. Eisen...
Online social sharing sites are becoming very popular nowadays among Web users, who use these sites to share their favourite items and to discover interesting and useful items fro...