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BCSHCI
2009
13 years 8 months ago
"A little silly and empty-headed": older adults' understandings of social networking sites
This study suggests reasons for the absence of a growing proportion of the population, the so-called baby boomers, from the otherwise highly popular social networking sites. We ex...
Vilma Lehtinen, Jaana Näsänen, Risto Sar...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 6 months ago
Predictive State Representations for grounding human-robot communication
— Allowing robots to communicate naturally with humans is a major goal for social robotics. Most approaches have focused on building high-level probabilistic cognitive models. Ho...
Eric Meisner, Sanmay Das, Volkan Isler, Jeff Trink...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Social thinking to design social software: A course experience report
Open-source development, social production, social networks and other factors change the way we understand software systems. The paper motivates the use of social thinking to desi...
Cédric Mesnage, Mehdi Jazayeri
NSDI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Understanding Privacy Settings in Facebook with an Audience View
Users of online social networking communities are disclosing large amounts of personal information, putting themselves at a variety of risks. Our ongoing research investigates mec...
Heather Richter Lipford, Andrew Besmer, Jason Wats...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Service robots in the domestic environment: a study of the roomba vacuum in the home
Domestic service robots have long been a staple of science fiction and commercial visions of the future. Until recently, we have only been able to speculate about what the experie...
Jodi Forlizzi, Carl F. DiSalvo