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2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Judging you by the company you keep: dating on social networking sites
This study examines dating strategies in Social Networking Sites (SNS) and the features that help participants achieve their dating goals. Qualitative data suggests the SNS featur...
Adeline Y. Lee, Amy Bruckman
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Why an emergency alert system isn't adopted: the impact of socio-technical context
The purpose of this study is to understand the laggard adoption of an SMS-based emergency alert system on a university campus. Based on findings from in-depth interviews and a foc...
Philip Fei Wu, Yan Qu, Jennifer J. Preece
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Coordinating the ordinary: social information uses of Facebook by adults
Social network sites (SNSs) are bundles of information and communication tools that can be used to support collaboration, among other uses. In a qualitative study of adult Faceboo...
Donghee Yvette Wohn, Cliff Lampe, Jessica Vitak, N...
DEBU
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Towards Activity Databases: Using Sensors and Statistical Models to Summarize People's Lives
Automated reasoning about human behavior is a central goal of artificial intelligence. In order to engage and intervene in a meaningful way, an intelligent system must be able to ...
Tanzeem Choudhury, Matthai Philipose, Danny Wyatt,...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Friends, romans, countrymen: lend me your URLs. using social chatter to personalize web search
People often find useful content on the web via social media. However, it is difficult to manually aggregate the information and recommendations embedded in a torrent of social ...
Abhinay Nagpal, Sudheendra Hangal, Rifat Reza Joye...