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JCHE
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
The virtual campus of the future: stimulating and simulating civic actions in a virtual world
This paper presents a pre-orientation program for incoming college students, Active Citizenship through Technology (ACT), that engaged students in civic dialogue early in their aca...
Marina Umaschi Bers, Clement Chau
JCDL
2010
ACM
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13 years 12 months ago
Social network document ranking
In search engines, ranking algorithms measure the importance and relevance of documents mainly based on the contents and relationships between documents. User attributes are usual...
Liang Gou, Xiaolong Zhang, Hung-Hsuan Chen, Jung-H...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Measurement-calibrated graph models for social network experiments
Access to realistic, complex graph datasets is critical to research on social networking systems and applications. Simulations on graph data provide critical evaluation of new sys...
Alessandra Sala, Lili Cao, Christo Wilson, Robert ...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Social gravity: a virtual elastic tether for casual, privacy-preserving pedestrian rendezvous
We describe a virtual “tether” for mobile devices that allows groups to have quick, simple and privacy-preserving meetups. Our design provides cues which allow dynamic coordin...
John Williamson, Simon Robinson, Craig Stewart, Ro...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Monitoring social expectations in Second Life
Online virtual worlds such as Second Life provide a rich medium for unstructured human interaction in a shared simulated 3D environment. However, many human interactions take place...
Stephen Cranefield, Guannan Li