The twin mainstream computing shifts of mobility and programable Web are fundamentally impacting how humans interact, socialize, and access information. Never before has computing...
Predicting the occurrence of links is a fundamental problem in networks. In the link prediction problem we are given a snapshot of a network and would like to infer which interact...
In this paper, I describe progress in research designed to explore the effect of the combination of behavioral and visual fidelity of avatars on users' social presence in syn...
Conflict and disruption are a part of everyday life, yet research in the home largely examines consensus and rituals. In this paper, we use Holmes and Rahe's categorization o...
Since learning nowadays is conceptualized as a social system within communities of practice, the best way to learn is with others, in groups. In the past few years, there has been...