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UIC
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Mining and Visualizing Mobile Social Network Based on Bayesian Probabilistic Model
Social networking has provided powerful new ways to find people, organize groups, and share information. Recently, the potential functionalities of the ubiquitous infrastructure le...
Jun-Ki Min, Su-Hyung Jang, Sung-Bae Cho
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Liberal Sims?: Simulated Difference and the Commodity of Social Diversity
This paper outlines how representations of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity intersect with strategies of late capitalism in The Sims, arguably the most popular video game of ...
A. Brady Curlew
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Exertion interfaces: sports over a distance for social bonding and fun
An Exertion Interface is an interface that deliberately requires intense physical effort. Exertion Interfaces have applications in "Sports over a Distance", potentially ...
Florian Mueller, Stefan Agamanolis, Rosalind W. Pi...
ECIS
2000
13 years 9 months ago
The Exercise of Power and Information Systems Strategy: The Need for a New Perspective
- Computer based information systems (IS) in work-based organisation are generally acknowledged as incorporating a social as well as technical dimension. Information system strateg...
K. S. Horton
CSCW
2000
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Talking Work: Language-games, Organisations and Computer Supported Cooperative Work
This paper asks the question: how might CSCW system design obtain and be informed by an adequate real-world, real-time understanding of work and organisation on any occasion of wor...
Andy Crabtree