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ACMICEC
2006
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
An ontology of trust: formal semantics and transitivity
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
Jingwei Huang, Mark S. Fox
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
ePluribus: Ethnicity on Social Networks
We propose an approach to determine the ethnic breakdown of a population based solely on people's names and data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. We demonstrate that our a...
Jonathan Chang, Itamar Rosenn, Lars Backstrom, Cam...
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Addressing social dilemmas and fostering cooperation through computer games
The concept of social dilemmas can be used to understand social situations all around us. I am looking at identity formation to help understand why people make the decisions they ...
Mark Chen
NOSSDAV
2010
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Second life: a social network of humans and bots
Second Life (SL) is a virtual world where people interact and socialize through virtual avatars. Avatars behave similarly to their human counterparts in real life and naturally de...
Matteo Varvello, Geoffrey M. Voelker
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
See friendship, sort of: how conversation and digital traces might support reflection on friendships
Inspired by conversational visualization tools and the increasing enactment of relationships in social media, we examine how people reflect on friendships and how social data and ...
Victoria Schwanda Sosik, Xuan Zhao, Dan Cosley