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CSCW
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
BusyBody: creating and fielding personalized models of the cost of interruption
Interest has been growing in opportunities to build and deploy statistical models that can infer a computer user’s current interruptability from computer activity and relevant c...
Eric Horvitz, Paul Koch, Johnson Apacible
MABS
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
From KISS to KIDS - An 'Anti-simplistic' Modelling Approach
A new approach is suggested under the slogan “Keep it Descriptive Stupid” (KIDS) that encapsulates a trend in increasingly descriptive agentbased social simulation. The KIDS ap...
Bruce Edmonds, Scott Moss
WSPI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Practices, Systems, and Context Working as Core Concepts in Modeling Socio-Technical Systems
This work draws on the cultural historical activity-theory and the theory of social systems to model socio-technical systems. The concepts of practice, system, and context work as ...
Heidrun Allert, Christoph Richter
ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Models of Communication Dynamics for Simulation of Information Diffusion
—We study information diffusion in real-life and synthetic dynamic networks, using well known threshold and cascade models of diffusion. Our test-bed is the communication network...
Konstantin Mertsalov, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Mark K....
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Probabilistic Model of Motor Resonance for Embodied Gesture Perception
Abstract. Basic communication and coordination mechanisms of human social interaction are assumed to be mediated by perception-action links. These links ground the observation and ...
Amir Sadeghipour, Stefan Kopp