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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
Do all birds tweet the same?: characterizing twitter around the world
Social media services have spread throughout the world in just a few years. They have become not only a new source of information, but also new mechanisms for societies world-wide...
Barbara Poblete, Ruth Garcia, Marcelo Mendoza, Ale...
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Handy navigation in ever-changing spaces: an ethnographic study of firefighting practices
This paper presents an ethnographic study, conducted to gain an insight of the practices around navigation of firefighters on the first line of intervention. We argue that the com...
Sebastian Denef, Leonardo Ramirez, Tobias Dyrks, G...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 9 months ago
ViewSer: enabling large-scale remote user studies of web search examination and interaction
Web search behaviour studies, including eye-tracking studies of search result examination, have resulted in numerous insights to improve search result quality and presentation. Ye...
Dmitry Lagun, Eugene Agichtein
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
Counting triangles and the curse of the last reducer
The clustering coefficient of a node in a social network is a fundamental measure that quantifies how tightly-knit the community is around the node. Its computation can be reduce...
Siddharth Suri, Sergei Vassilvitskii