The implementation and use of new information technology initiate changes. These changes can be either of a technological nature (and often explicitly known), or of a social natur...
Pervasive personal communication technologies offer the potential for important social benefits for individual users, but also the potential for significant social difficulties an...
For my dissertation, I am designing, implementing and evaluating the use of a new kind of "authorable" virtual peer that allows children with autism to learn about recip...
The present work investigates the structural and dynamical properties of aNobii1 , a social bookmarking system designed for readers and book lovers. Users of aNobii provide informa...
Luca Maria Aiello, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Gia...
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...