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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Feed me: motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites
Social networking sites (SNS) are only as good as the content their users share. Therefore, designers of SNS seek to improve the overall user experience by encouraging members to ...
Moira Burke, Cameron Marlow, Thomas M. Lento
VLDB
2000
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Memex: A Browsing Assistant for Collaborative Archiving and Mining of Surf Trails
Keyword indices, topic directories, and link-based rankings are used to search and structure the rapidly growing Web today. Surprisingly little use is made of years of browsing ex...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Sandeep Srivastava, Mallela Su...
JCHE
2010
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13 years 2 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
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A Context-Based Information Agent for Supporting Intelligent Distance Learning Environments
The large amount of information now available on the Web can play a prominent role in building a cooperative intelligent distance learning environment. We propose a system to prov...
Mohammed Abdel Razek, Claude Frasson, Marc Kaltenb...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Jogging the distance
People enjoy jogging with others for social and motivational reasons. However, as reported by forum participants, finding a compatible, local jogging partner who shares the abilit...
Shannon O'Brien, Florian Mueller