The defining characteristic of the Internet today is an abundance of information and choice. Recommender Systems (RS), designed to alleviate this problem, have so far not been ver...
Philip Bonhard, Martina Angela Sasse, Clare Harrie...
User profiles on today's social networking sites support only a small set of predefined questions. We report on an alternative way for users to richly describe themselves, by...
Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Michael J. Muller, Joan...
Online information services have grown too large for users to navigate without the help of automated tools such as collaborative filtering, which makes recommendations to users ba...
In this paper we describe the results of a controlled study of a social game, Magpies, which was built on the Facebook Online Social Network (OSN) and enhanced with contextual soc...
Ben Kirman, Shaun Lawson, Conor Linehan, Francesco...
A number of online video social networks, out of which YouTube is the most popular, provides features that allow users to post a video as a response to a discussion topic. These f...