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2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Computable social patterns from sparse sensor data
We present a computational framework to automatically discover high-order temporal social patterns from very noisy and sparse location data. We introduce the concept of social foo...
Dinh Q. Phung, Brett Adams, Svetha Venkatesh
CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Virtual gifts and guanxi: supporting social exchange in a chinese online community
Significant cultural differences persist between East and West. Software systems that have been proven to operate efficiently within one culture can fail in the context of the oth...
Jiang Yang, Mark S. Ackerman, Lada A. Adamic
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Organizing without formal organization: group identification, goal setting and social modeling in directing online production
A challenge for many online production communities is to direct their members to accomplish tasks that are important to the group, even when these tasks may not match individual m...
Haiyi Zhu, Robert Kraut, Aniket Kittur
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
HCI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Towards Building a Math Discourse Community: Investigating Collaborative Information Behavior
We reported a study that analyzes collaborative information behavior of small groups in an online math discourse community. Taking group as the unit of analysis, we analyzed the so...
Nan Zhou, Gerry Stahl