In this study, we explore the potential usefulness of disturbing, uncomfortable systems, demonstrating that provocative technology can have a positive effect on social relationshi...
Brooke E. Foucault, Helena M. Mentis, Phoebe Senge...
We investigate the breaking of ties between individuals in the online social network of Twitter, a hugely popular social media service. Building on sociology concepts such as stre...
Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...
An online software agent that helps smokers quit was designed and tested. We created a library of categorized smoking cessation messages using meta-data corresponding to the Stage...
We study the problem of visualizing large networks and develop es for effectively abstracting a network and reducing the size to a level that can be clearly viewed. Our size reduc...