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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
MOBICOM
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
PeopleNet: engineering a wireless virtual social network
People often seek information by asking other people even when they have access to vast reservoirs of information such as the Internet and libraries. This is because people are gr...
Mehul Motani, Vikram Srinivasan, Pavan Nuggehalli
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
From awareness to repartee: sharing location within social groups
This paper investigates emergent practices around `microblogging', changing and sharing status within a social group. We present results from a trial of `Connecto', a ph...
Louise Barkhuus, Barry Brown, Marek Bell, Scott Sh...
FGR
2008
IEEE
134views Biometrics» more  FGR 2008»
14 years 5 months ago
Identifying dominant people in meetings from audio-visual sensors
This paper provides an overview of the area of automated dominance estimation in group meetings. We describe research in social psychology and use this to explain the motivations ...
Hayley Hung, Daniel Gatica-Perez
SMC
2007
IEEE
129views Control Systems» more  SMC 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
Planning human centered robot activities
— This paper addresses high-level robot planning issues for an interactive cognitive robot that has to act in presence or in collaboration with a human partner. We describe a tas...
Vincent Montreuil, Aurélie Clodic, Maxime R...